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KIC 8462852, or the WTF (Where's the Flux?) star, is an F-type main sequence star about 1,480 ly away.  It's a little larger and more massiv

Markets are powerful decentralized optimization engines - it is known.  Liberals see the free market as a kind of optimizer run amuck, a dan

This article explores analogism and creativity, starting with a detailed investigation into IQ-test style analogy problems and how both the

This article presents an emerging architectural hypothesis of the brain as a biological implementation of a Universal Learning Machine.  I p

A research team in China has created a system for answering verbal analogy questions of the type found on the GRE and IQ tests that scores a

Our sun appears to be a typical star: unremarkable in age, composition, galactic orbit, or even in its possession of many planets.  Billions

From this article  by Zoltan Istvan, in regards to the looming Global AI Arms race, he says:   As the 2016 US Presidential candidate fo

Could a future superintelligence bring back the already dead?  This discussion has come up a while back (and see the somewhat related); I'd

Edit:  Added clarification of the limit in response to gwern's comment. Recently I've found several instances of this Pascal Mugging/Wager p

What defines a human mind?  Or a sentient mind in general? From a computational perspective, a human mind is one of some particular class