The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image