Accelerating Future Transhumanism, AI, nanotech, the Singularity, and extinction risk.

Singularity Institute President on Forbes.com

Michael Vassar has an article up on Forbes. Here's how it starts:

Are you in a city? If so, may I ask you to look around? Almost everything you see was created deliberately. Human minds built theories and implemented plans. Due to these plans, rocks were gathered, shaped and rearranged. You call some of these rocks your house. The main things that weren't created deliberately are the minds themselves.

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This is part of a larger AI special on the site. Nice selection, including articles by Judea Pearl, Nick Bostrom, Ben Goertzel, Peter Norvig, and Hugo de Garis.