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a simple autostereogram: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7

If you are having trouble with this, wikipedia has some good instructions which helped me. First try autostereograms [1] (these are more simpler to see), and then simple random dot…

worth rewatching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrIrcV9Bgmc

Vicarious ( http://vicarious.com/ ) which recently got $15 million from Peter Thiel & Dustin Moscovitz would be a 9 on your scale.

Here's a recent anecdote: A few months back I got a stomach ulcer and before going to the doctor, I decided to do some research. I came to realize that the primary cause is not str…

Looks like you are forgetting manual override .

In winner-takes-all games, being even in the top 99th percentile is worse than useless. To use your own example, true you might get better than half the regulars in basketball if y…

@zanny: A lot of the action in the brain seems to take place at the synapses. These are much smaller structures, and a useful brain scan will need to make precise measurements of t…

Well, to me it seems that fine grained brain scanning would need something like Laplace's demon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon

I have a question regarding this brain scanning and uploading idea: Won't Heisenberg's principle make this impossible?

Richard Dawkins made an excellent documentary, The Enemies of Reason , which covers homeopathy. Parts of the it can be found on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query…

How come you missed something more obvious? * Controlled Fusion My guess is that the politicians were sold on the unlimited energy that successful controlled fusion would provide. …

"Defaults aren't usually in the best interests of those on the bottom (e.g., Ph.D. students), so it's important to know when to reject them and to ask for something different. Of c…

Reincarnation, telepathy, extra sensory perception etc. are pipe dreams for us, but ironically, for AIs that we build, they will be routine! Current operating systems are like rudi…