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Nick Bostrom's Simulation Argument hit the news recently when a physicist published a blog post about it: No, we probably don’t live in a

Why do people end up with differing conclusions, given the same data?   Model The information we get from others can not always be 100%

Noodling on a cloud SUMMARY: By teaching others, we also learn ourselves.   How can we best use conversation as a tool to facilitate tha

Albert is a relatively new AI, who under the close guidance of his programmers is being permitted to slowly improve his own cognitive capabi

There's a long article in this week's The Economist: The onrushing wave discussing the effect of changing technology upon the amount of em

*The chair of the meeting approached the podium and coughed to get everyone's attention* Welcome colleagues, to the 19th annual meeting of

It would improve the usefulness of article navigation, if people tended to use the same tag for the same thing. Currently, if you want to

Your opportunity to weigh in and get some reasoned views widely heard: The Men Trying To Save Us From the Machines

Intrade, the prediction market website, has shutdown.  According to their website: With sincere regret we must inform you that due to circ

Summary: A daimon is a process in a distributed computing environment that has a fixed resource budget and core values that do not permit: