February 2012
4 posts
A Trip To The Living City Of The Future |... →
“What the meaning of human life may be I don’t know: I incline to suspect that it...”
– Letters of Note: On the Meaning of Life
Will Artificial Intelligence be America’s Next Big... →
“On a cold night, most people consider a well-tended fire to be one of the more...”
– The Fireplace Delusion :
Sam Harris
January 2012
18 posts
“Instead of being overwhelmed by the universe, I think that perhaps one of the...”
– Michio Kaku (via alnator)
Extropian Principles 3.0 →
“While I do consider religious institutions and their representatives — popes,...”
– Morals without God? « On the Human
“If you think of life, of intelligent life, it is, among other things, a physical...”
– What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology - Technology - The Atlantic
Majority report: looking through the digital hype... →
“Even more fundamentally, there is no such thing as creativity that doesn’t...”
– On pirates and piracy - O’Reilly Radar
To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on... →
“We don’t need more technocrats who fool us that their Ivy League law degrees are...”
– Works and Days » So Why Read Anymore?
Your God is My God : Sam Harris →
Sam Harris satirically ghostwrites a speech for Mitt Romney prior to the SC primary.
“ “There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist, Survivor, W. W. Norton, 1999. (Illustration: Termes Thoughts) See also: ☞ ‘To understand is to perceive patterns’ (via amiquote)
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WatchNot usually my kind of music, but something is entrancing about Lana Del Rey’s voice…
“When you talk about free music, people who work in the music business will tell...”
– Giving it Away: How Free Music Makes More Sense
Time to end the war on drugs - Richard Branson's... →
“Whenever we ask “why?” we generally mean “How?”, because why implies a sense of...”
– [The Blog : Everything and Nothing :
Sam Harris](http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/everything-and-nothing/)
“technology is an enabler of rights, not a right itself. There is a high bar for...”
– Internet Access Is Not a Human Right - NYTimes.com
Daedalus, or, Science and the Future →
Artificial General Intelligence and its Potential... →
AGI researcher and futurist Ben Goertzel on the intersection of AGI and a singularity.
“You know that feeling, when you’re alone in a house reading a book and you get...”
December 2011
12 posts
“If mind is what flows through the mechanism of the brain, does that make...”
– The Neurobiology of ‘We’ - Parabola Magazine
The Future is a Virus - IEET.org →
“This argument over authenticity lies at the heart of the neuroethicists’...”
– The Battle for Your Brain - Reason Magazine
“The banks have said, leave us deregulated, we know how to run things, don’t put...”
– Jeffrey Sachs: ‘That’s not a free market, that’s a game’ - Talk to Al Jazeera - Al Jazeera English
“Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical,...”
– Alan Moore (via decaying-organic-matter)
“Taking this a couple of steps further, the article points out that, to many...”
– The end of social - O’Reilly Radar
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we...”
– Albert Einstein (via sandygautam)
Art and the Limits of Neuroscience - NYTimes.com →
“The problem is not with us realizing that people can feel at one with the...”
– What’s the Point of Transcendence? : Sam Harris
“One conclusion was forced upon my mind at that time, and my impression of its...”
– Drugs and the Meaning of Life : Sam Harris]
“Quantum computers, in short, may become extraordinarily powerful tools — but,...”
– A computer that thinks like the universe - Ideas - The Boston Globe
“Science does not purvey absolute truth, science is a mechanism. It’s a way of...”
– Isaac Asimov on science, creativity, and education in a rare Bill Moyers interview circa 1988 (via taylorlorenz)
<3 asimov
(via wallytheidol)
November 2011
16 posts
“‘What is wisdom’ is an exceptional question in that that its primary function is...”
– Spaceweaver: What about wisdom
“The point being: we have a massive police force in America that outside of lower...”
– Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
“Much of our acceptance and effort to push technology forward these days occurs...”
– Yang: Life Liberty and Enhancement
“There’s a reason changing our system of government is slow going. I like to...”
– Scott Adams: What If Government Were More Like an iPod? - WSJ.com
“Culture, after all, is fluid. It can change. It happens all the time. The...”
– Capitalism vs. the Climate | The Nation
“PROTECT IP (S. 968)/SOPA (HR. 3261) creates the first system for Internet...”
– Stop Sopa, Save The Internet
China mocks U.S. political model - Washington... →
“I do not care what car you drive. Where you live. If you know someone who knows...”
– Andre Jordan (via c0mets)
“There’s a great quote from Pablo Picasso: “Computers are useless. They can only...”
– Paris Review – Brian Christian on ‘The Most Human Human’, Eric Chinski
“In the end, if the concept of “political disobedience” accurately captures this...”
– Occupy Wall Street’s ‘Political Disobedience’ - NYTimes.com
William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211 →
“Do not wait for the encampments, then, to develop leaders or political...”
– Occupy Wall Street as a fight for “real democracy” – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs
The Instability of Inequality - Nouriel Roubini -... →
“Concentration of power is not good or bad in itself, says the Zurich team, but...”
– Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - physics-math - 19 October 2011 - New Scientist