Friday, November 20, 2015

Rethinking Quantum Mechanics and Inverted Spacetime from a Computationalist Perspective

›
Warning: Speculative physics bullshit by a non-physicist Tl;dr: If Maldacena and van Raamsdonk are correct, then spacetime might not be ...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

Why Twitter was right to replace stars with hearts, and why you hate it

›
Last Tuesday, Twitter replaced its appreciation expressor button, pictured as a star, with a heart. Instead of "favs", twitter use...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

In Defense of Cryonics

›
The current issue of Technology Review contains Michael Hendricks' scathing condemnation of the proposal of cryonics , i.e. the idea of ...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

How to make Ubena Spaghettigewürz

›
I grew up in the household of very busy artists, which meant that I had to learn how to cook my own food long before I had the chance to for...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Why Artificial Intelligence won't just be a bit smarter than humans

›
If building human-level Artificial Intelligence is possible, it will mean that we have solved the puzzle of the human mind. Replicating the ...
Saturday, January 3, 2015

Jaron Lanier pisses me off

›
Jaron Lanier's piece on Edge ("The Myth of AI") has sparked quite a bit of discussion in my field, and he really pisses me of...

From Computation to Consciousness

›
During the 31st Chaos Communication Congress, I had the opportunity to talk about how a computational universe can give rise to consciousnes...