Check out this animated movie by Zeb and Ben Goertzel. It takes a little while to download and watch, but I was highly amused. Zeb is the 12 year-old son of Ben, who is working on the Novamente AGI engine. Fittingly, the plot of the movie revolves around an AI that uses a robotic turtle as its body. This shows that even a gifted child can understand the risk posed by AI - why is it that even some adults seem to have difficulty? Anyway the movie is extremely funny.

Popular Mechanics, the magazine that originally introduced me to molecular nanotechnology, seems to have decided that being blatantly transhumanist in a mainstream magazine is now O.K. Usually they come at the field from a toned-down perspective, but apparently not anymore. Even Robert Freitas, father of medical nanotechnology, is mentioned in the second paragraph.

Share your OPML. This is a new project from one of the fathers of RSS. See how “mainstream” your feeds are, browse other people’s feeds, etc. I like the clean design.

I reached my 1,000th post on ImmInst!

The above image is a screenshot of the electric sheep screensaver, which is the most mesmerizing screensaver ever.