The debates page has been updated again, pushing the total to over 600.
I’ve written a summary of my in-progress metaethics sequence.
From Twitter:
- Thrilling video art (watch in 720p).
- The Onion: “Man to Sail Around World to Decrease Awareness of Important Issues.”
- My new favorite web design.
- I get two Malick films in the next few years? Praise the gods.
- Oxford’s Nick Bostrom: philosophers can be useful again if they are polymaths who engage in technological forecasting.
- Synthetic biology explained (video).
- List of all Singularity Summit talk videos.
- The surprising cognitive abilities of crows.
- Two spiral galaxies, merging.
- Skinemax is “Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes.”
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Mr. Deity discovers a singularity
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Synthetic biology explained (video).
Fairly accurate.
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Philosopher, polymath, engages in technological forecasting …
The Polish author and philosopher Stanislaw Lem and his 1964 book Summa Technologiae comes to mind. Unfortunately, Summa Technologiae still isn’t translated into English. There is only a partial translation into English available on the web. There is a complete translation into Russian.
See also: http://english.lem.pl/works/essays/summa-technologiae
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