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get ready for the singularity with a mind file

A Singularitarian group wants to make you immortal using nothing more than all your secrets and keepsakes...
get ready for the singularity with a mind file

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we interrupt your regular transmission…

We interrupt our normal update to bring you a message from the post-Singularity future.
we interrupt your regular transmission…

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the technological singularity, revisited again

Advocates of the supposedly incoming Technological Singularity have been long on talk but short on detail and seem to see no reason to reverse this trend.
the technological singularity, revisited again

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the daily galaxy embraces the singuarity

The Daily Galaxy takes up preaching the gospel of the Singularity to its fans while dodging the sketchy history and problematic future of the concept.
the daily galaxy embraces the singuarity

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transhumanists at h+ vs. a skeptical biologist

A biologist tried to give a neuroscience lesson to the utopian futurists at H+ and they did not take it well.
transhumanists at h+ vs. a skeptical biologist

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when the singularity feels like the matrix…

The idea that simulating a brain in a computer will yield an intelligent being has become an unshakeable belief amongst Singularitarians.
when the singularity feels like the matrix…

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the skeptic's guide to the singularity

Transhumanists preaching the Gospel of the Singularity are right that we don't have to let nature dictate our future. But their absolute faith in utopian technology that hasn't yet been invented is misplaced.
the skeptic's guide to the singularity

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ray kurzweil's exponential mythology

To Ray Kurzweil and his adherents, the "exponential curve of technology" is an immutable law of nature. But does it actually exist in the real world?
ray kurzweil's exponential mythology

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why you're probably intuitively wrong

Some engineers are convinced that neurons work the same way as circuits. Neuroscience begs to differ.
why you're probably intuitively wrong

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the singularity, now with even more utopia

For Ray Kurzweil and his disciples, the "exponential curve of technological advancement" is the way, the light, and the cure for all that ails us...
the singularity, now with even more utopia

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the singularity's mysterious allure

When you're promised eternal life as a hyper-intelligent machine, it's hard to not check out its confabs.
the singularity's mysterious allure

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michael vassar vs. weird things, round three

Michael Vassar is back for the third and final installment of the Weird Things Singularity debate.
michael vassar vs. weird things, round three

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michael vassar vs. weird things, round two

Michael Vassar is back for the second round of our debate about Ray Kurzweil and The Technological Singularity.
michael vassar vs. weird things, round two

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michael vassar vs. weird things, round one

Michael Vassar of the Singularity Institute offers a rebuttal to Weird Things' coverage of the Singularity and its advocates.
michael vassar vs. weird things, round one

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the singularity institute vs. weird things

The Singularity Institute has been reading Weird Things and they have some objections...
the singularity institute vs. weird things

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