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• Massimo Pigliucci of Psychology Today Insults David Chalmers’ Haircut for Giving Talk on the Singularity

  
  Accelerating Future — Authority: 504
  David Chalmers, one of the world’s most famous philosophers, is now giving talks on the Singularity in venues other than Singularity Summit, so surely this means that it must be time to hurl ad hominem insults at him. At least, that’s what Massimo Pigliucci of Psychology Today seems to think : David ...
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• Singularity University Kicks Off First Executive Program

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 128
  The SU Executive Program is scheduled for November 7-15, 2009 at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif… Click here for the details found on the Singularity University website.
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• Terence McKenna - Preparing for the Singularity

  
  Accelerating Future — Authority: 504
  Let’s all take a walk with Terence McKenna in the rainforest and talk about psychedelics, shall we? H/t James Sargent .
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• A Conversaion Between Shimon Peres and Ray Kurzweil

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 128
  “Meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli President Shimon Peres at the recent Israeli Presidential Conference: Facing Tomorrow 2009, Ray Kurzweil proposed several innovations for dealing with the coming energy shortages and bolstering Israel’s growing economy…” Click here to get ...
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• Stephen Wolfram at Singularity Summit 2009

  
  Accelerating Future — Authority: 504
  Stephen Wolfram at Singularity Summit 2009 — A Conversation on the Singularity from Michael Anissimov on Vimeo . He doesn’t talk too much about the Singularity in this “conversation on the Singularity”, but he does touch on a LOT of interesting issues, including AI, science, the complexity of nature, his ...
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• Singularity University Kicks Off First Executive Program Tomorrow

  
  Singularity University — Authority: 401
  After a great inaugural Graduate Studies Program this summer, SU is readying to welcome the first Executive Program class on Friday. SU chancellor Ray Kurweil will set the stage for the program in his opening keynote tomorrow evening. With world-class faculty, a inter-disciplinary, 9-day curriculum, and a few ...
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• Deep Inside DARPA

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 128
  Dr. James Hughes interviews Michael Belfiore on his book (The Department of Mad Scientists) about DARPA.
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• Jürgen Schmidhuber at Singularity Summit 2009

  
  Accelerating Future — Authority: 504
  Jürgen Schmidhuber at Singularity Summit 2009 - Compression Progress: The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity and Creativity from Michael Anissimov on Vimeo . A great talk with lots of hard data and demonstrable AI progress by Dr. Jürgen Schmidhuber, Director of the Swiss AI lab IDSIA.
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• AFI FEST 2009: A SINGLE MAN, THE SINGULARITY

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 444
  Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man (top); Steve Evets, Eric Cantona in Looking for Eric (bottom)AFI FEST 2009 highlights on Thursday, Nov. 5:Robert Barry Ptolemy’s The Singularity sounds fascinating: Futurist Ray Kurzweil discusses the just-around-the-corner impact of human technology, which has been ...
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• Singularity Summit 2009 Videos Available Online

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 599
  Tired of just hearing about exciting conferences about the future? Do you want to know what it’s like to see some of the smartest people on the planet talk about the Singularity? Well, now you can. The Singularity Summit is an annual gathering of leaders in research, industry, and philosophy that give ...
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• Singularity

  
  Rocketboom — Authority: 124
  Rocketboom Tech’s correspondent, Ellie Rountree, talks about the concept of Singularity and how it could potentially change the world. Story links: Moore’s Law , The Coming Superbrain , By 2040 you will be able to upload your brain… , Darwin’s Robots , Games Design Themselves , LIBBY - Vocal Artificial ...
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• Enter The Yottabyte – One Billion Petabytes!

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 599
  I just saw a story about the NSA gearing up a datacenter to potentially hold a yottabyte of surveillance data. The whole surveillance angle itself is pretty interesting, but what caught my attention was the concept of the yottabyte.   The yottabyte is 10 24 bytes. That is three levels above the petabyte, which ...
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• Singularity Summit 2009 Videos

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 630
  The videos of the Singularity Summit 2009 that was held in New York are up at Vimeo (H/T Michael Anissimov at Accelerating Future ) A selection of embedded videos are below. Changing the World Panel -- Singularity Summit 2009 -- Peter Thiel, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Aubrey de Grey from Michael Anissimov on ...
  6 days ago

• Singularity Summit 2009 Videos Now Available!!!

  
  Accelerating Future — Authority: 504
  The videos for Singularity Summit 2009 are now available at Vimeo . The few that are missing are either still awaiting confirmation of permission or the speaker asked for video not to be posted of their talk. Many of the talks are quite excellent, if I do say so myself. The Singularity Summit 2009 is the most ...
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• ‘The Evolution of Confusion’ by Dan Dennett, AAI 2009

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 128
  Dan Dennett talks about purposely-confusing theology and how it’s used. He also describes his new project interviewing clergyman who secretly don’t believe anymore, and introduces a new term: “Deepity.” Dan Dennett is the author of many excellent books, including “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural ...
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• Balticon 43 Extra – Evoat11 40 – Live from Balticon

  
  Balticon Podcast — Authority: 408
  Audio posted by Evo Terra for his Evo@11 Podcast.Quoting the original show notes:Recorded live at Balticon! Withnbsp;Patrick E. McLean, a bottle of Macallan 12-year-old scotch,nbsp;Bill DeSmedt,nbsp;Sheila Dee andnbsp;P.G. Holyfield. Itrsquo;s long. Itrsquo;s wild. Kinda like me.Choice Bits Apologies for last ...
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• Are We Alone for 11/02/09 - Do Computers Byte?

  
  ASTRO LINK — Authority: 122
  Are We Alone - Do Computers Byte? The march of computer technology continues. But as silicon chips and search engines become faster and more productive – can the same be said for us? The creator of Wolfram Alpha describes how his new “computational knowledge engine” is changing – and improving – how we ...
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• Are We Alone for 11/02/09 - Do Computers Byte?

  
  Cloudymidnights — Authority: 421
  Are We Alone - Do Computers Byte? The march of computer technology continues. But as silicon chips and search engines become faster and more productive – can the same be said for us? The creator of Wolfram Alpha describes how his new “computational knowledge engine” is changing – and improving – how we ...
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• Halloween lecture online

  
  vetta project — Authority: 103
  My Halloween lecture has been uploaded to youtube. The basic outline is: * what is intelligence? * Solomonoff induction * Hutter’s AIXI * Monte Carlo AIXI * universal intelligence measure * what neuroscience can teach us about AGI design * early 2020’s: the Halloween scenario You can get the slides here . I ...
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• Ray Kurzweil’s second talk at Singularity Summit 2009 — Critics of the Singularity

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 128
  Award-winning futurist, inventor, and author Ray Kurzweil on common criticisms of his concept of the Law of Accelerating Returns. Uploaded by Singularity Institute Media Director Michael Anissimov. Ray Kurzweil’s second talk at Singularity Summit 2009 — Critics of the Singularity from Michael Anissimov on ...
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