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This is an animation of a rotor from Drexler and Merkle’s neon pump, animated using Blender . From Machine Phase , a molecular modeling blog.
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I doubt my fixation on Pinker will end anytime soon, because his book How the Mind Works was the single most illuminating work of cognitive science I’ve read, even though it was a popular work.
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There are many press releases on PhysOrg in the last few days related to the subject matter of this blog.
Oscar Pistorius’ artificial limbs give him clear, major advantage for sprint running
‘Rationalizer’ bracelet tells traders when they’re stressed
The indefinite ...
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The first “skylight”, as in big hole in the ground like the amazing ones on Mars , has been found on the Moon by Japan’s Kayuga spacecraft. They are thought to be the collapsed ceilings of lava tubes. There has not been volcanic activity on the Moon for about 2.5 billion ...
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Here is the exchange of letters . Pinker’s response:
What Malcolm Gladwell calls a “lonely ice floe” is what psychologists call “the mainstream.” In a 1997 editorial in the journal Intelligence, 52 signatories wrote, “I.Q. is strongly related, probably more so than any other single ...
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The word “complexity” is a confusing one. There are two types of complexity — the vague, layman’s term, which seems to mean something like a great chain of being (”the more like us humans it is, the more complex it must be), and the precise, mathematical term, ...
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Jamais Cascio has a good article up at Fast Company on IBM’s “cat brain” project . My thoughts are the same as his. A cat-sized neural simulation is one thing, an actual cat emulation is another thing entirely . IBM is branding its achievement as if it made Mr. Fluffles ...
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Why do I care so much about the Malcolm Gladwell issue ? First is the matter of scientific integrity in journalism. Science-oriented folks care about it, and most everyone else doesn’t. For instance, here is John Horgan from Slate :
Almost four years ago, an esteemed science ...
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Malcom Gladwell is acting slightly odd as the criticism of his thinking is reaching a “tipping point”, to use the phrase he popularized. He posted a screenshot of the “igon value” section of his Taleb essay from the New Yorker , but the essay on his website still has the ...
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Glenn Reynolds has an article on the Singularity at Popular Mechanics .
Ron Bailey has the “deets” on the recent Manhattan Beach Longevity Summit .
Hank Hyena, a seemingly new-ish writer at h+ magazine, has a cool article on in-vitro meat, titled “Eight Ways In-Vitro ...
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This evidence is merely anecdotal, and I give great preference to non-anecdotal evidence, but it’s nice to mix in occasional anecdotes as long as we don’t overweigh their significance.
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Since I’ve been revisiting Creating Friendly AI lately, I thought I’d post “Interlude: Why Structure Matters” , which is the first set of scenarios that made me realize that creating self-improving human-equivalent AI that isn’t a dire threat to the human species ...
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In the New York Times , Steven Pinker takes the time to look at Malcom Gladwell and his latest book of anecdotal curiosities coupled with feel-good populist platitudes. Gladwell is a poster boy of IQ denialism, which bores academics familiar with the mainstream research on intelligence , like ...
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Brian Wang of Next Big Future chimes in on Jamais’ NYC Future Salon talk :
I disagree that there has been or will be much effective overall control of the result of technological development by governments and people. Also, most of the efforts tend to be reactive and take a long time ...
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My short article on buckymesh has been making the rounds at StumbleUpon, gaining about 10K views so far this month. Whoever synthesizes even a cubic micrometer of the stuff would probably get quite a lot of scientific attention.
