Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Marvin Minsky

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Marvin Minsky has passed away from us last night. Right before I got the sad news, I had spent an hour in a conversation with a friend in o...
Monday, January 25, 2016

No, the universe is not a brain.

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At Forbes, Ethan Siegel asks if the universe may be alive. This might bring us to the question what it means to be alive. When biologists s...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Why I don't think that Quantum Computers will work, ever

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I have just made a bet that quantum computers will not turn out to be better than classical computers within the next fifteen years. I would...
Friday, December 11, 2015

Four Gods

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When I follow discussions between atheists and enlightened catholics, I notice that they often talk past each other, due to entirely differ...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Rethinking Quantum Mechanics and Inverted Spacetime from a Computationalist Perspective

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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

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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

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