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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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The Next Paradigm

By Raelifin | Published: May 23, 2009

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 on [...]

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Why the Terminator is Inaccurate

By Raelifin | Published: April 6, 2009

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 by watching this [...]

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