Tag Archives: technology

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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Back to School

By Raelifin | Published: October 10, 2009

I just got back from vacation yesterday. I’m taking physics this term in school, and while I was away I’ve been keeping up-to-date with various websites provided by the instructor. I’ve also been enjoying some lectures put up by Yale. I hear MIT has some good content on the subject too.
Over the past few months [...]

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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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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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