Posts Tagged ‘singularity’

Seriously, who would simulate me?

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

From time to time I run across something that just shocks me, not because of the thing itself, but because the thing is so completely something I should have known about and yet have somehow missed. How does a philosophy argument about things that interest me greatly go on for years without my hearing about [...]

We’re Living In Science Fiction: Street-Level Nanotech

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

There’s certainly something to be said for wild and crazy, “the universe is my canvas”, science fiction ideas–things with broad scope that seem tenuously plausible but highly disconnected from our day-to-day lives. Ever since 19821 though, we’ve also known that there are results that are just as surprising, jarring, and interesting as some of those [...]