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essay | Testing if artificial intelligence has become self-aware
Proposed test could perhaps detect consciousness in a machine.
What is the Doomsday Clock and why should we keep track of the time?
The Doomsday Clock was shifted on January 26, 2017 from three minutes to midnight to a new setting of two and a half minutes to midnight --- the nearest the clock has been to midnight for more than 50 years.
Why 2016 was actually a year of hope
essay | It may not feel like anything to be an alien
essay | So you want to build a Death Star? Here’s how to get started
essay | How to make space great again
essay | Spotlight on military + defense
essay | The fears, promises, and potentials of AI super-intelligence
Reflections on Bostrom’s Superintelligence, Yudkowsky’s From AI to Zombies, and Weaver and Veitas’s Open-Ended Intelligence
Singularity Q&A
Femtotech: Computing at the femtometer scale using quarks and gluons
From cosmism to deism
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The new era of health + medicine
by Ray Kurzweil
On genes, memes, bemes, and conscious things
Is the business cycle in your DNA?
Communicating with the universe
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