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Tuesday Morning Links
Tuesday morning links. * “Kurzweil is 60, but he intends to be no more than 40 when the singularity arrives”: Wired profiles futurist and Singularity prophet Ray Kurweil. Kurzweil predicts that by the...
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They Call It ‘Longevity Escape Velocity’
Ray Kurzweil: We are very close to the tipping point in human longevity… we are about fifteen years away from adding more than one year of longevity per year to remaining life expectancy.
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A Little Later Tuesday Afternoon
* Books and magazines are apparently no longer allowed on flights to and from Canada. Because, you know, freedom. * If you consider a stash of obscene videos scarier than a stash of firearms then this...
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You Had Me At ‘Will Eventually Be Called Upon to Act as a Medical Doctor’
* What if DC published Marvel characters in the 1960s? What if DC published 1970s Marvel characters in the 1960s? I only wish there were more. * I’m really looking forward to the Wachowskis’ Cloud...
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Sunday Night Links
* Inside UNC’s no-show classes. But the NCAA is powerless! Alas! * Grantham To Climate Scientists: ‘Be Persuasive. Be Brave. Be Arrested (If Necessary).’ * Ray Kurzweil’s Dubious New Theory of Mind. *...
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Monday Night Links
* Bernard Pollard doesn’t think the NFL will exist in 30 years… because it’s just becoming too darn safe. * Wisconsin officials tout the UW Flexible Option as the first to offer multiple,...
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And That’s Before Getting Into the Whole ‘Roko’s Basilisk’ Mess
Here we see a real purpose behind lesswrong.com. Ultimately it doesn’t matter that people like Thiel or Kurzweil or Yudkowsky are pushing a crackpot idea like the singularity; what matters is that they...
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Wednesday Morning!
* Man tragically unable to remember saying Barack Obama would make a great president says Hillary Clinton will make a great president. Meanwhile, the rest of us are reduced to talking about Obama’s...
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Far Too Many Monday Morning Links, Sorry
* The Imaginary Worlds podcast did a recent episode on the legacy of Octavia Butler. * N.K. Jemisin has a plan for diversity in science fiction. * The best McSweeney’s link in years, maybe ever: “A...
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