Showing posts with label good news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label good news. Show all posts
Saturday, February 02, 2019

Against superhuman AI

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I am a strong-AI pessimist. I think by 2100 we’ll be in range of sentient AIs that vastly exceed human cognitive abilities  (“ skynet ”). Su...
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Friday, December 30, 2011

I win Apple's Nano recall lottery

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LiOn battery issues (burst into flame!) have led to an  Apple recall of the 1st generation iPod Nano . I dug out my neglected Nano and sent ...
Wednesday, November 09, 2011

In praise of the (almost) modern bicycle

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The Subaru is in the shop, so I get an extra day of bike commuting this week. Most weeks I'm allowed one day of bike commuting leisure, ...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

How Minneapolis went from bicycle bust to bicycle boom in 30 years

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Great review of how Minneapolis became a bicycle town following the Dutch model of bike/car separation, with very encouraging news from St P...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Credit to the base: The Mormon, the Minority and the Maroon

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The GOP is morally and intellectually bankrupt -- and they're likely to get another chance to finish off America. This is, of course, t...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

An American toaster

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Five years ago, when China's manufacturing quality was at its worst, I used the crummy toaster crisis as a missing-middle example. It w...
Sunday, October 09, 2011

Why rationalists like OWS

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Philosophically I'm closer to OWS than to the Tea Party. In terms of policy, I'm reluctantly closer to Clinton/Gore than to anarcho-...
Monday, September 12, 2011

The BBC is making In Our Time archives available for download (!)

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After years of making past IOT episodes available only for streaming, the BBC is making the archive of their History of Ideas program availa...