[singularity] Researcher Needed

I have a research opening. If you are a researcher and have any time to work with me virtually this weekend for approximately 4 hours, please contact me at by email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bty, for those of you on the Singularity list, this is not an April 1st spoof :-) Many thanks, Natasha

Re: [singularity] future search

At 08:41 PM 4/2/2008, -dave wrote: Hi All, I'm quite worried about Google's new Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation technology going FOOM! http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/ Two thoughts: 1. Practicing futurists must be careful about claimi

[singularity] Re: [wta-talk] Brief report on AGI-08

At 11:51 AM 3/8/2008, Ben wrote: Hi all, The AGI-08 conference (agi-08.org) occurred last weekend in Memphis...! I had hoped to write up a real scientific summary of AGI-08, but at the moment it doesn't look like I'll find the time, so instead I'll send out this briefer and more surface-level s

Re: [singularity] The Extropian Creed by Ben

At 01:53 PM 1/25/2008, you wrote: On Jan 25, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Natasha Vita-More wrote: The idea of useless technology is developed in wearables more than in bioart. Steve's perspective is more political than artistic in regards to uselessness, don't you think? My paper whic

Re: [singularity] The Extropian Creed by Ben

At 05:28 AM 1/25/2008, Gudrun wrote: Quoting Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Gudrun:The obsessive compulsive 'artificial' project. Can I ask what your thesis is about? - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: htt

Re: [singularity] The Extropian Creed by Ben

At 03:04 PM 1/24/2008, Gudrun wrote: and N. Vita-More " Using the term "Social-Darwinism" is inaccurate because it poisons the well of your readership by implying that it is a desire for those who are more fit than others to dominate. This term makes a socio-economic/political inference, rat

Re: [singularity] The Extropian Creed by Ben

can assure you of this. Anyway, as I said, thx for your feedback and suggestions for further reading, I hope to improve the next version ... Also I think the intentions of the chapter are clearer in context of the whole book... best wishes, Natasha thanks Ben On Jan 21, 2008 1:26 AM,

Re: [singularity] The Extropian Creed by Ben

ave the revised edition ready for the publisher by mid-May, so this is of current interest. Yes, indeed. Best wishes, Natasha On Jan 21, 2008 1:26 AM, Natasha Vita-More <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 12:54 PM 1/20/2008, Ben wrote: > > > > I created a revised version

Re: [singularity] The Extropian Creed by Ben

At 12:54 PM 1/20/2008, Ben wrote: I created a revised version of the essay, which may not address all your complaints, but hopefully addressed some of them. http://www.goertzel.org/Chapter12_aug16_05.pdf However I would be quite interested in further critiques of the 2005 version, because t

Re: [singularity] The Extropian Creed by Ben

At 12:56 PM 1/20/2008, you wrote: On Jan 20, 2008 1:54 PM, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Natasha > > After discussions with you and others in 2005, I created a revised > version of the essay, > which may not address all your complaints, but hopefully addressed some of them. > > h

Re: [singularity] The Extropian Creed by Ben

At 06:06 AM 1/20/2008, Mike Tintner wrote: Sorry if you've all read this: http://www.goertzel.org/benzine/extropians.htm But I found it a v. well written sympathetic critique of extropianism & highly recommend it. What do people think of its call for a "humanist transhumanism"? I found Ben

[singularity] LABoral Conference - Ideas Welcome

Recently, I sent an email concerning an upcoming conference at the LABoral http://www2.laboralcentrodearte.org/ which has a focus on gaming, immersion and VR, but also invites design and theory as they relate to the idea of homo ludens. Thank you to those who emailed me off-list with your

[singularity] ARTS: Transhumanism + Play/Games - Spain Conference 2008

Friends, I have been invited to give a talk and presentation on transhumanism/posthumanism and play at LABoral Centre for Art and Industrial Creation (Gijon, Spain). I invite you to collaborate with me on the presentation. I was thinking of creating a "play" off of the Turning Point project

[singularity] AI CryoFeast: Austin, November 18, 2007

Greetings -- This year the AI (Austin Intelligentsia - a local futurist group) is hosting the CryoFeast at our home on November 18th from 5:00 - 7:30 pm. Anyone who is a futurist, H+ist, H2.0ist, and cryonicist is welcome. RSVP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (After you rsvp, I will send directions and

Re: [singularity] PhD Ideas

At 07:09 AM 10/24/2007, XAV wrote: I would be interested to know if there are a group of PhD students researching this field or other discussion forums that would help me to formulate my research question. I am more in the philosophical approach rather than the programing side of AI due to the

Re: [singularity] QUESTION

At 01:10 AM 10/22/2007, AL wrote: Dear Sirs, You can call me madam :-) My question is: AGI, as I perceive your explanation of it, is when a computer gains/develops an ego and begins to consciously plot its own existence and make its own decisions. I think the term you are looking for is

Re: [singularity] Artificial Genital Intelligence

At 09:42 PM 10/7/2007, you wrote: Minx interviews Goertzel: www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=11&t=18067 ;-) Haha! Ya *hard* science ... Yo go Ben! (Er, bty, she could have been a contestant on "Rock of Love" VH1 reality sho

Re: [singularity] Book: Goertzel/Bugaj

At 06:33 AM 8/31/2007, Joshua wrote: Ben Goertzel and Stephan Vladimir Bugaj, _The Path to Posthumanity: 21st Century Technology and Its Radical Implications for Mind, Society and Reality_, 2006, deserves more attention than it has received. It is in some ways the best book-length introduction

Re: [singularity] HUMOUR: The humans are dead

At 12:42 AM 6/23/2007, Joel wrote: Two fellow kiwis that entertain me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64 Thanks Joel - enjoyed it. Natasha Natasha Vita-More PhD Candidate, Planetary

Re: [singularity] AI and politics

At 01:45 PM 6/4/2007, John wrote: I'm going to take a dim/skeptical view of the true potency of advanced AI here. If a hypothetical advanced AI comes up with, say, a design for a working, practical, economical, enviromentally friendly power source, will it really get anywhere? Or if it say

RE: [singularity] The humans are dead...

Ben Goertzel wrote: > But once a powerful AGI is actually created by person X, the prior > mailing list posts of X are likely to be scrutinized, and > interpreted by people whose points of view are as far from > transhumanism as you can possibly imagine ... but who > may have plenty of power in