Category Archives: Cool Stuff

Vanguard on Robotic War

By Raelifin | Published: December 4, 2009

Vanguard has some of my favorite reporting on global events and trends. This week they investigate robotic warriors, a subject which I have written about in the past. The only thing which was really news to me was the fully-automatic shotgun (3:20). Scary stuff.

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A Basket of Wonderful Things

By Raelifin | Published: November 5, 2009
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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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