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‘Shopped

By Raelifin | Published: April 8, 2010

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The Genius Of SIAI

By Raelifin | Published: March 27, 2010

This post is in some respects a response to “Terminated” on the GoiD blog, though I was already planning on writing something along these lines. I used to be more optimistic about the benevolence of Artificial Intelligence (AGI). I figured that the worst thing that could happen would be the creation of truly intelligent machines [...]

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Prescience

By Raelifin | Published: September 9, 2009

I’ve been interested in the future for a long while, now. Most of this interest goes into my passion for reading about science and technology, but after reading James Surowiecki’s Wisdom of Crowds I thought to myself: “How well could a crowd predict the future?” In my free time I set up a website which [...]

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