Tag Archives: technology

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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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 [...]

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Just some tech

By Raelifin | Published: April 22, 2009

Amazing robots:

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