Peter Thiel at Singularity Summit 2011 Tuesday, Dec 20 2011
Max Tegmark at Singularity Summit 2011 Tuesday, Dec 20 2011
Eliezer Yudkowsky at Singularity Summit 2011 Sunday, Dec 11 2011
AI and events and friendly ai and SIAI and singularity and videos 12:18 pm
Jaan Tallinn at Singularity Summit 2011 Sunday, Dec 11 2011
events and friendly ai and philanthropy and SIAI and singularity and videos 12:16 pm
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The Methuselah Generation: the Science of Living Forever Sunday, Dec 11 2011
life extension and videos 9:56 am
The creators of this documentary teaser are raising money to continue work on their life extension documentary!
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Rachel Haywire Describes the Extreme Futurist Festival Wednesday, Dec 7 2011
events and transhumanism and videos 11:00 am
The event is the 16th and 17th in Los Angeles. Tickets are on sale now, and the full schedule is up. This festival, the first of its kind, will feature artists, speakers, musicians, and performers.
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Interesting Stephen Wolfram Talk on his Theories Regarding Computation Friday, Nov 18 2011
anthropics and futurism and philosophy and videos 7:33 am
Sorry, there is some superfluous footage from the prior talk and intro beforehand. The actual talk begins around 2:00.
Singularity Summit 2011 Videos Now Online Friday, Nov 18 2011
events and singularity and videos 1:29 am
See them all at SIAI’s YouTube channel.
More than 500 photos are also online at SIAI’s Flickr account.
Jaan Tallinn Speaks at Singularity Summit 2011 Friday, Oct 21 2011
ethics and events and futurism and videos 10:19 am
“Balancing the Trichotomy”
Jaan Tallinn
Individual rights vs collective good: historically, to promote these competing values, societies sought balance between the two. Powerful technologies, however, are turning this dichotomy into a trichotomy. Today, we must consider the interests of individuals, modern society, and future societies that our actions will affect. Present and future societies interests’ clash most famously in matters of pollution and global warming, but the stakes are much higher that these slow-moving crises would suggest. Emerging technologies may prove so disruptive that future societies cannot control their impact. I will discuss the reasons that people are ill-equipped to manage the trichotomy and propose ways to address this pivotal problem.
Electric Sheep Video Thursday, Sep 8 2011
technology and videos 10:48 pm
Electric Sheep is a collaborative abstract artwork founded by Scott Draves. It’s run by thousands of people all over the world, and can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers “sleep”, the Electric Sheep comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as “sheep”.
Anyone watching one of these computers may vote for their favorite animations using the keyboard. The more popular sheep live longer and reproduce according to a genetic algorithm with mutation and cross-over. Hence the flock evolves to please its global audience. You can also design your own sheep and submit them to the gene pool.
The result is a collective “android dream”, blending man and machine to create an artificial lifeform.
Jason Silva: “On the Creating and Sharing of Awe” Friday, Aug 19 2011
philosophy and singularity and videos 2:21 am
You are a Receiver from jason silva on Vimeo.
From here.
Jason Silva will be speaking at Singularity Summit in October.
