Ave atque Vale
In case anyone wonders where I've gone, I'm resigning from Foresight for medical reasons (adhesive capsulitis -- long and painful course of therapy) and to concentrate my few remaining neurons [...]
In case anyone wonders where I've gone, I'm resigning from Foresight for medical reasons (adhesive capsulitis -- long and painful course of therapy) and to concentrate my few remaining neurons [...]
I'm on my way to AGI-10, the general AI conference, in Lugano. If any readers are attending, let's get together. Among other things, we'll be unveiling a preliminary take on [...]
The UK-based Institute of Physics (IOP) publishes, among other things, the journal Nanotechnology, one of the leading journals in the field, and has had special issues with papers from Foresight [...]
It's been snowing continuously here for about 2 days. The heaviest snows I've experienced in my life (for any significant amount of time) were an inch an hour, [...]
Robin Hanson comments on David Brin's response to a New Scientist editorial. As Brin notes, many would-be broadcasters come from an academic area where for decades the standard assumption has [...]
Let's try to pull all the threads together, as futurists -- which is the whole point here -- and get some idea about when it might be reasonable to expect [...]
Rob Freitas has a new paper up: Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Diamond Trees (Tropostats): A Molecular Manufacturing Based System for Compositional Atmospheric Homeostasis,” IMM Report 43, 10 February 2010 Abstract. [...]
Why we should suspect that the brain has a limited ability to recurse, but prefers to daisy-chain instead: The house the malt the rat the cat the dog the cow [...]
... to boldly go where no man has gone before! This final phrase of the classic Star Trek opening spiel had two problems with it, one as seen by people [...]
Over the past ten to fifteen years, research in computational linguistics has undergone a dramatic “paradigm shift.” Statistical learning methods that automatically acquire knowledge for language processing from empirical data [...]