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…rs since | stopped presenting my concept about a rape-in of legislators’ wives, | sent the first draft of this piece around to several friends, and | was particularly touched by a response from Emma Cofod, production manager at my then-publisher, Soft Skull Press: HOUSE_OVERSIG...

… Tegmark is an MIT physicist and AI researcher; president of the Future of Life Institute; scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute; and the author of Our Mathematical Universe and Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Although there’s g...

…f we could make “backups” of people every week, say. Diving headfirst on Saturday off a high bridge without benefit of bungee cord would be a rush that you wouldn’t remember when your Friday night backup was put online Sunday morning, but you could enjoy the videotape of your app...

…After Words'. He truly is an inspiration and so is his writing. The book, which is a compilation of his speeches, was launched yesterday in Sydney. I will be sure to send you a copy, it's a brilliant read. I trust this email finds you well. Kindest regards Katherine X Creativity...

…mics, this one just might pass the test. If someone out there knows a precedent closer than Becker’s, as | eventually found ones for what I had thought were my own free growth and next generation theories, all the more fun in finding those unsuspected precursors. (Next generation...

… a computer programmer, theoretical physicist, and investor, is a co- developer of Skype and Kazaa. In March 2009, I found myself in a bland franchise eatery next to a noisy California freeway. I was there to meet a young man whose blog I had been following. To make himself reco...

Invisible Forces Farr Curlin meditates on the puzzle of medicine—what is its evolutionary and social function, what draws individual practitioners to it, and what grounds its fundamental values. The values of scientific inquiry lead to treating the objects of inquiries in just...

key to understanding when people may be likely to invoke natural versus supernatural explanations, when gadgets can seem to have minds of their own, and when people are likely to treat their pets as people and their enemies as animals. A mind like our own, with the capacity to se...

…esn’t happen. Data say the same. I apply the same idea in next generation theory. My 3.5% is a rough estimate. What counts is the generation length. The length was probably higher, and the rate lower, before medicine and sanitation lowered mortality rates, and let two or three...

consumption must exclude any schooling or nurture already counted in that investment. (Schooling counts as consumption.) Mill would have understood the human capital concept, defined by Sir William Petty nearly two centuries before, but economists only recently have begun to take...

…pes of long-term memory are differently implemented in the brain, but the degree of structure and dynamical commonality underlying these different implementations remains unclear. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013016

Hagerman, |.,Berglund, M., Lorin, M., Nowak, J., Sylven, C.(1996) Chaos-related deterministic regulation of heart rate variability in time- and frequency domains: effects of autonomic blockade and exercise. Cardiovasc 31:410-418 Haken, H. (1997) Visions of synergetics. Int. J....

294 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? different feel to them. My question is this. Is there more to face-to-face communication between human beings than the simple exchange of symbolic information? Let us propose an experiment. I erect a 3D screen with a hi-fi surround sound syste...

30 anywhere pound for pound. Along the way, a strong national consciousness was forged in the vein of a twenty-first-century trading state. Lee’s method of government was not altogether democratic, and his intrusion into people’s lives bordered on the petty and anal- retentive:...

…ed only a little tweaking and clarification, as to the two kinds of capital and consumption for example. There is a “fundamental theorem” of calculus showing how differentials and integrals fit together. Its proof takes a lot of thought. There is a simpler one for algebra. Migh...