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essay | Testing if artificial intelligence has become self-aware
Proposed test could perhaps detect consciousness in a machine.
What is the Doomsday Clock and why should we keep track of the time?
The Doomsday Clock was shifted on January 26, 2017 from three minutes to midnight to a new setting of two and a half minutes to midnight — the nearest the clock has been to midnight for more than 50 years.
Why 2016 was actually a year of hope
essay | So you want to build a Death Star? Here’s how to get started
essay | How to make space great again
essay | Spotlight on military + defense
Singularity Q&A
Femtotech: Computing at the femtometer scale using quarks and gluons
From cosmism to deism
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The new era of health + medicine
by Ray Kurzweil
Is the business cycle in your DNA?
Who Will Rule the 21st Century?
Why Language Is All Thumbs
Bootstrapping our way to an ageless future
The Age of Virtuous Machines
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