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Farewell Aaron Swartz (1986-2013)

Link One of us is no more. Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide in New York City yesterday, Jan. 11. The accomplished

Implications of an infinite versus a finite universe

Hi gang, for the last several months, I've intermittently been wondering about a curious fact I learned. You see, I was under the impre

Musk, Mars and x-risk

Article on space.com Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, wants to help establish a Mars

[LINK] TEDx "When creative machines overtake man"

Video here, illustrated transcript here. Contains a good sketch of Schmidhuber's Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity. One TEDx passage i

[LINK] Different heuristics at different decision speeds

The "intuitive" (fast) interaction heuristic is predisposed towards selflessness, while the "calculated" (slow) decision making process favo

[LINK] Cryonics - without even trying

(Title is tongue-in-cheek, "preservation" would've been more appropriate but less catchy) With [news like that](http://news.discovery.com/h