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Post Transcendent Man

Submitted by Exponential Times on Sat, 2011-04-16 08:46
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This is a panel review and audience discussion on the groundbreaking but controversial ideas and projects of Ray Kurzweil, especially as featured in the film Transcendent Man which has its London premier earlier in the same week:http://transcendent-man-london-premiere-5-april-2011.eventbrite.com/

Anders Sandberg
Jaan Tallinn
Nic Brisbourne
Paul Graham Raven
Russell Buckley
  • Singularity
  • UKH+
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  • 2485 reads

Singularity Institute Introduction

Submitted by Exponential Times on Sat, 2011-04-09 20:26
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An introduction to the Singularity Institute, which includes luminaries such as biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, who seek to defeat aging, and Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and seed investor in Facebook.

Aubrey de Grey
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Peter Thiel
  • Singularity
  • 1857 reads

A university for the coming singularity

Submitted by Exponential Times on Sat, 2011-04-09 20:21
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Ray Kurzweil's latest graphs show that technology's breakneck advances will only accelerate -- recession or not. He unveils his new project, Singularity University, to study oncoming tech and guide it to benefit humanity.

Ray Kurzweil
  • Education
  • Singularity
  • TEDTalks
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Digital Frontiers: Ray Kurzweil and "Transcendent Man"

Submitted by Exponential Times on Sat, 2011-03-19 10:02
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Inventor, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil has some controversial predictions about the future. Among them: by 2029, he says, computers will be so advanced that their thinking will be indistinguishable from that of humans. This moment, which Kurzweil calls "the Singularity", will change every aspect of our lives, and likely lead to humans and machines fusing together. Recently Kurzweil sat down with VOA to explain his ideas and what leads him to his predictions.

Ray Kurzweil
  • Future
  • Singularity
  • 2760 reads

Introducing the "Singularity": Three Major Schools of Thought

Submitted by Exponential Times on Fri, 2011-03-18 20:24
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Eliezer Yudkowsky is one of the worlds foremost researchers on Friendly AI and recursive self-improvement. He created the Friendly AI approach to AGI, which emphasizes the importance of the structure of an ethical optimization process and its supergoal, in contrast to the common trend of seeking the right fixed enumeration of ethical rules a moral agent should follow. At the 2007 Singularity Summit, he introduced three schools of thought currently associated with the word Singularity, their core arguments and bolder conjectures, while noting where they support or contradict each other.

Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Singularity
  • Singularity Summit 2007
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The Singularity and the Methuselarity: Similarities and Differences

Submitted by Exponential Times on Sat, 2010-10-02 20:26

Biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, CSO of the SENS Foundation, on the similarities and differences between the Singularity and the concept of longevity escape velocity.

Aubrey de Grey
  • Life Extension
  • Methuselarity
  • Singularity
  • Singularity Summit 2009
  • 2321 reads

Critics of the Singularity

Submitted by Exponential Times on Sat, 2010-10-02 20:05

Award-winning futurist, inventor, and author Ray Kurzweil on common criticisms of his concept of the Law of Accelerating Returns.

Ray Kurzweil
  • Law of Accelerating Returns
  • Singularity
  • Singularity Summit 2009
  • 2152 reads

Macroeconomics and Singularity

Submitted by Exponential Times on Sat, 2010-10-02 19:32

Peter Thiel on the relationship between macroeconomics and the Singularity.

Peter Thiel
  • Economics
  • Singularity
  • Singularity Summit 2009
  • 2419 reads

A Conversation on the Singularity

Submitted by Exponential Times on Sat, 2010-10-02 19:23

Stephen Wolfram, of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha fame, has a conversation on the Singularity with Gregory Benford.

Stephen Wolfram
  • Singularity
  • Singularity Summit 2009
  • 1571 reads

Simulation and the Singularity

Submitted by Exponential Times on Sat, 2010-10-02 19:17

World-famous philosopher David Chalmers on simulation and the Singularity

David Chalmers
  • Philosophy
  • Simulation
  • Singularity
  • Singularity Summit 2009
  • 1811 reads
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