Category Archives: Cool Stuff

When Capitalism Fails

By Raelifin | Published: August 19, 2009

“We took a wrong turn when doctors stopped being doctors and became businessmen,” This is the best piece of journalism I’ve seen in a while. I suggest that everyone who is slightly interested in health-care read it. It’s eight pages, but well worth it.

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Intelligence Explosion

By Raelifin | Published: July 21, 2009

I’ve been fascinated for a while by the concept of a technological singularity. Of course, it’s ridiculously difficult to talk about because it sounds like an apocalypse theory (and kind of is). That’s why I was so impressed with this talk by Eliezer Yudkowsky on the subject that was linked to by Accelerating Future recently: [...]

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Cool New Stuff in May

By Raelifin | Published: May 23, 2009

This post is more or less a random dump of the cool things I’ve seen lately. Web Data: * Huge number of volunteers for genome database

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Just some tech

By Raelifin | Published: April 22, 2009

Amazing robots:

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