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Hans Moravec predicted human-level AI by 2028. Now he contemplates our species’ end - and his own.

Yes, reference 10 jumped out at me as well. I thought personal correspondence references typically include one of the authors of the paper.

“unc” is the new “boomer”

Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox

Not necessarily. Double entry bookkeeping catches errors in cases where an amount posted to one account does not have an equally offsetting post in another account or accounts (i.e…

“said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida.” We are truly living in the fu…

This is, if not the best, likely the most concise history of Wikipedia I have ever read.

You probably know this but, for anyone else who is interested, the easiest way to get a feel for Icon nowadays may be through its descendant Unicon which is available at unicon.org…

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> That would make reading Fourth Wing or Twilight a more connecting experience than most classics. I prefer classics myself, but this is exactly why booktok works (and why Fourth W…

Yes, the article appears to be a short excerpt from a book and probably loses a lot of context because of that. I am interested in the questions raised by the author but will wait …

Forth started as Chuck Moore’s solution to the problem of how to bring up an interactive programming environment on hardware with limited memory. The base of the system used a smal…