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A week ago I made a pitch for the Singularity Institute to a crowd of interested potential donors, along with a number of leaders of other n

Call for Essays:<http://singularityhypothesis.blogspot.com/p/submit.html> The Singularity Hypothesis A Scientific and Philosophical Assess

Katja's recent post on cryonics elicited this comment from Steven Kaas, "If cryonics is super-far and altruism is seen as more import

I am far from convinced that people in general wish to be seen as caring more about morality than they actually do.  If this was the case, w

Normal 0 I don’t want to be too dogmatic about this claim, but Godzilla is unrealistic.  I don’t want to be too non-dogmatic about this

This recent blog post strikes me as an interesting instance of a common phenomenon.  The phenomenon looks like the following; an intellectua

I would like to propose this as a thread for people to write in their predictions for the next year and the next decade, when practical with

I would like to propose this as a thread for people to write in their New Year’s Resolutions (goals and sub-goals) as instrumental rationali

So far, only one of the less-wrong meet-ups that were discussed has been scheduled.  The Boston meet-up was scheduled for: Carberry's at 7

Hi from Michael Vassar, the president of SIAI. With my wife and Singularity Summit co-director Aruna, I'll be traveling over the next few mo