dclayh

As a part of public relations, I think it's important to keep tabs on how the Singularity and related topics (GAI, FAI, life-extension, etc.) are presented in the culture at large. I've posted links to such things in the past, but I think there should be a central clearinghouse, and...

ETA: There is now a third thread, so send new comments there. Since the first thread has exceeded 500 comments, it seems time for a new one, with Eliezer's just-posted Chapter 33 & 34 to kick things off. From previous post: > Spoiler Warning: this thread contains unrot13'd spoilers for...

Previously: Eliezer Yudkowsky facts, and Kevin's prediction. A bit of silliness for the day. Below the fold to spare those with delicate sensibilities. Please contribute your own in the comments. (Lolrobinhansons, etc., would also be welcome.) Unfortunately I have no special source of Eliezer photos to offer beyond Google Images.

Today's Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. (Which incidentally is a very funny webcomic I read regularly.) Mouseover the red button for a bonus panel. Clearly the author hasn't read the proper Eliezer essay(s) on post-Singularity life.

> "Whoever saves a single life, it is as if he had saved the whole world." > > —The Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:5 That was the epigraph Eliezer used on a perfectly nice post reminding us to shut up and multiply when valuing human lives, rather than relying on the (roughly)...

In his recent post, rhollerith wrote, > I am more likely than not vastly better off than I would have been if <I had made decision X> This reminded me of the slogan for the water-filtration system my workplaces uses, > We're 100% sure it's 99.9% pure! because both sentences...

The fiction piece in this week's New Yorker deals with some of the same themes as Eliezer's "Three Worlds Collide"; viz., the clash of value systems (and the difficulty of seeing those with a different value system as rational), and the idea of humanity developing in ways that seem bizarre/grotesque/evil...