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I think you're mistaken about this. Once the philosophical and technical breakthroughs are made that allow us to build an AGI then it will get all the data it needs from its enviro…

I like the way the narrator-hero is trapped in a sinister bell jar world and yet works optimistically to improve his knowledge of it. Regardless of outcome he sees no malevolence b…

Consider that the machinery to make group decisions and allocate resources already exists (laws, institutions, government, etc). It is imperfect and can be improved. But what is re…

Politics is about who to blame and hacking is about solving problems. (Blaming is the opposite of solving problems.)

I like because it gives due credit to Chiang. Painfully modest though he may be, this enterprise sprang out of his imagination.

Wai H. Tsang: http://www.academia.edu/27961545/The_Fractal_Brain_Theory_-_...

With the advent of squeezable bottles the new problem is how to prevent the socially awkward squelching noise.

The criterion is not about assessing a particular individual's contributions, it's about choosing what and whom to investigate in the first place. Of course this is subjective, and…

Indeed. And just as most people can't see things accurately, not can they sense what's going on inside their mouths. AFAICT each accent has a signature pattern of muscle tension an…

>I'm sure I'm even still missing aspects. Perhaps this comes under 'defenders of the realm', but: dogs bark at strangers thereby acting as an alarm system. I wonder if dogs domesti…

>hear of a name before you hear of a concrete achievement That's an excellent criterion. I often wonder if many famous past intellectuals were mere celebrities where I can't recall…

Thank you! That's actually the one I meant. (With apologies to Mr Dheere. I haven't heard his rendition.) Ray Sizemore reads it in a detached manner (reminiscent of the Emergency M…

Exhalation is one of the best SF stories ever written: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/ (Somewhere out there is an audio version crisply and cerebrally voiced …

Why does it take so long for us to form our first memory? My guess is it's because human memories are ideas and like all our ideas they depend on other ideas for their meaning. How…

Isn't there a valid distinction between the joy of making genuine progress in life and mere pleasure such as that derived from drugs or alcohol?

I like to consider the difference between 'one','a couple','a few','several','many'. e.g 1,2,3-6,5-12,10+ respectively. >Vagueness isn’t a problem about logic; it’s a problem about…

You need the math required to understand the language in which the current best physical theories are written. It's unknown as yet which mathematical objects will be required for t…

>terribly introverted adolescent, painfully aware of his own suffering Self-awareness seems to be a key component of creativity.

>excessive screen time early in life can change the circuits in a growing brain Any activity changes the brain. Also, as BurningFrog points out, "rewires" is a metaphorical term an…

Isn't this sort of thing inevitable? I mean, the more technology advances the easier and cheaper it becomes to build terrorist devices or WMDs. Therefore society, in order to prote…

Indeed. Turn the spotlight of publicity onto what people, be they good or bad, have to say. Turn a platform into a "safe space" and pretty soon any kind of criticism will be interp…

Wonder if drones could be shielded against this? Or, better yet, could the technology be adapted to transmit energy to drones or spacecraft?

Myself I prefer optimistic SF such as classic Asimov and Clarke. I don't mind things going wrong because mistakes are normal. But there ought to be resolution and problems solved b…

>humans have an innate capacity for reason, which they fail to use They use it as children; with adults explicit reason is mostly confined to their work. The rest of the time adult…