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deusx : Rudy’s Blog » Blog Archive » Fundamental Limits to Virtual Reality - "Matter, just as it is, carries out outlandishly complex chaotic quantum computations just by sitting around. Matter isn’t dumb. Every particle everywhere everywhen is computing at the maximum possible rate. I think we tend to very seriously underv
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11 month ago
deusx : The Sex Singularity by Paul Spinrad - "When Machines Surpass Human Hotness"
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12 month ago
deusx : Jupiter Brain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "A Jupiter Brain is a theoretical computing megastructure the size of a planet. Unlike a Matrioshka brain, a Jupiter Brain is optimized for minimum signal propagation delay, and so has a compact structure."
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deusx : Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: The Singularity - "Ray Kurzweil ... [is] adapting his latest book to make a movie titled The Singularity Is Near: A True Story About The Future."
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13 month ago
deusx : Vestigial Organs Seem Ripe for Transhumanist Tweaks - "A lot of transhumanist types focus on replacing perfectly good body parts with even better ones, ..., but it seems to me we ought to start by dropping some of our vestigial organs in favor of something more useful, or at least more classy."
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16 month ago
deusx : I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Surviving Immortality | PBS - "The Singularity may well bring with it the end of death, but I am 100 percent certain that taxes will survive."
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17 month ago
deusx : Earthquake Sets Japan Back To 2147 | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - "Japan finds itself in crisis, with our society and culture temporarily reverting to a pre-cyberunification era"
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17 month ago
deusx : mengwong - Has the Internet has passed the da Vinci point? - "After da Vinci, thanks to the Renaissance which he personified, the efflorescence of human knowledge outpaced any one individual's ability to understand it all."
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19 month ago
deusx : Technological singularity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The Technological Singularity is the hypothesized creation, usually via AI or brain-computer interfaces, of smarter-than-human entities that rapidly accelerate technological progress."
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19 month ago
deusx : Why Google Is Making Us Dumber - "Let’s face it: we’re not exactly becoming brighter by using Google. In fact, in the traditional education sense, we’re getting stupider, at least with certain types of tasks."
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19 month ago
deusx : Charlie's Diary: Shaping the future - "I'm going to ignore the temptation to talk about a whole lot of subjects — global warming, bioengineering, the green revolution, the intellectual property wars — and explain why, sooner or later, everyone in this room is going to end up in Wikip
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21 month ago
deusx : What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen - Here are the "slides" for my talk at Seminars about Long-Term Thinking, 15 February 2007.
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21 month ago
deusx : YouTube - I am the very model of a Singularitarian - "Charlie Kam has written and recorded a humorous Singularitarian version of Gilbert & Sullivan's "I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General," from the Gilbert & Sullivan opera, "The Pirates of Penzance.""
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deusx : Jack Mangan's Deadpan - a half hour interview with SFFaudio Essential winning author Bill DeSmedt.
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24 month ago
deusx : Liminal Existence: On Twitter - "I feel like all these emerging (emergent?) "ambient" communication technologies actually help to make me happier, and feel less alone in our highly abstract and disconnected world."
Rod Begbie : Liminal Existence: On Twitter - "Having "community" is extremely important; far more so than our productivity." [via] #
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deusx : 3pointD.com � Blog Archive � Vernor Vinge Paints the Future at AGC - "Think back to that time, what would it be like to be the first human to ever tell a joke, or the first storyteller. Anything you did would be new — and the fact that it was crap wouldn’t matter."
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30 month ago
deusx : articles : Upload Your Life Now - Jim Baen's Universe - "Everything I've described is possible today, and a lot of it is going on right now in the MyLifeBits project."
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31 month ago
deusx : - The great Singularity debate | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com - "aturday morning at the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. All 12 panelists for the day are seated in order of their scheduled presentations, with an audience of at least a thousand seated in the Memorial Auditorium on campus."
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35 month ago
deusx : KurzweilAI.net - I am the very model of a Singularitarian - "Expand his mental faculties by merging with technology" Awesome riff on a classic song.
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35 month ago
deusx : Singularitarian.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) - "I am the very model of a Singularitarian"
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42 month ago
deusx : Matrioshka Brain Home Page - "A Matrioshka Brain is a megascale structure constructed at atomic scale limits."
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deusx : Future Hi: I worry about the Singularity sometimes. - "My biggest worry in the Singularity is total dissolution"
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52 month ago
deusx : turns steel into peanut brittle - S1ngularity, and why I won't be going on the rapture of the geeks. (Keeping up with the future) - "Very very smart people aren't necessarily right more often than anybody else. They're just wrong faster, and in more innovative ways."
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52 month ago
deusx : Wired News: It's Just the 'internet' Now - 'Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the "I" in internet' I remember when they de-capitalized email.
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52 month ago
deusx : Popular Science | Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind? - "Awed at the pace of technological advances, a faction of geeky writers believes our world is about to change so radically that envisioning what comes next is nearly impossible."
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