By Raelifin | Published:
December 15, 2009
This blog comes straight from the middle of Kansas. The low rumble of the bus engine underscores the bleakness, as most other passengers on the bus are catching up on the sleep they were unable to get during the night. My mind is so active that I don’t easily become bored, but there’s something about [...]
By Raelifin | Published:
September 28, 2009
A friend of mine posted a question to facebook that was roughly “what areas of society would you want people to invest in?” He suggested robots, colonizing Mars and researching anti-aging therapies (like SENS). I said that I agree about robots, but not about Mars. I was asked about my position on curing age-related disease. [...]
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: [...]
Terminator 4 came out this Thursday. I haven’t seen it yet. I hope it’s better than Star Trek. Robotics confronts me continuously online, to the point where I cease to keep track. In terms of military equipment there is Ember, TROPHY, and the old news predator UAV, which I was unhappy to learn now advertises [...]
Originally this was going to be a reply to Rose of Montague’s comment on my “Raw Data Now” post: “Dude. You’re teaching the machines to read. They’ll destroy us all!” That was clearly in jest, but I’ve actually been fairly worried about future conflicts with machines. Seriously! (Most of the following blog was also prompted [...]
