Updated: 2010-12-31 22:36:59
I thought it might be fun to play with Google’s endlessly entertaining Ngram viewer and see if we live up to our reputation as rogue scientists from the future.
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Arts Living Cryonics Death Health Neuroscience Science Society Depressed Metabolism Cryonics , Life Extension , Anti-Aging , Health , Science , Neuroscience , Death Subscribe Subscribe by email About Authors What is cryonics Sitemap Is a life worth starting Some personal views By Mike Perry on December 27th , 2010 For life—the life of any sentient creature—to be worth living , there must , as Robert Ettinger has often said , be a preponderance of satisfaction over dissatisfaction . If this overall slant toward good rather than bad is maintained , it seems reasonable that one stands to gain by continued existence . I am not sure what fraction of the human or other sentient population achieves this positive balance and will not speculate except to note that by appearances there are many
Updated: 2010-12-21 22:26:54
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Thanks to the generosity of two major donors; Jaan Tallinn, a founder of Skype and Ambient Sound Investments, and Edwin Evans, CEO of the mobile applications startup Quinly, every contribution to the Singularity Institute up until January 20, 2011 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to [...]
Updated: 2010-12-20 16:13:38
Arts Living Cryonics Death Health Neuroscience Science Society Depressed Metabolism Cryonics , Life Extension , Anti-Aging , Health , Science , Neuroscience , Death Subscribe Subscribe by email About Authors What is cryonics Sitemap Review of Better Never to Have Been’ By Mike Perry on December 20th , 2010 Review of Better Never to Have Been : The Harm of Coming into Existence by David Benatar . New York : Oxford University Press , 2006 Would that I had never been born” is a lament sometimes voiced in the depth of misfortune , a cry of despair we hope may be soon be stilled by something more positive , when the bad things , whatever they are , have run their course . Enter David Benatar , a respected professor of philosophy at the University of Cape Town , South Africa . In the volume
Updated: 2010-12-15 22:40:12
Tooby, Goertzel, Yudkowsky & Legg panel: Narrow and General Intelligence from Singularity Institute on Vimeo.
Singularity Summit 2010 videos are now being uploaded. The videos are still in the process of being edited, so not all are uploaded, but should be before the end of the month. Enjoy the talks. Thank you to [...]
Updated: 2010-12-03 23:53:43
Call for Essays:
The Singularity Hypothesis
A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment
Edited volume, to appear in The Frontiers Collection, Springer
Does an intelligence explosion pose a genuine existential risk, or did Alan Turing, Steven Hawking, and Alvin Toffler delude themselves with visions ’straight from Cloud Cuckooland’? Should the notions of superintelligent machines, brain emulations and transhumans be ridiculed, or [...]
