Tag Archives: singularity

Resolving the Fermi Paradox

By Raelifin | Published: February 3, 2010

For a while I’ve been trying to figure out how to resolve the Fermi Paradox. For those of you who don’t know, the Paradox is, given what we know about life, the universe and everything, there should be a significant number of alien civilizations in our galaxy. The reasoning here boils down to the Drake [...]

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On the utility of game-changing technologies

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. [...]

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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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Just some tech

By Raelifin | Published: April 22, 2009

Amazing robots:

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