Ronald Bailey: Plastic Brains, Femmebots, and Aliens Watching TV

Reason Online's science correspondant Ronald Bailey has published his account of the Humanity+ Summit recently held at Harvard University.

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IEET's Biopolitics of Popular Culture Seminar [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
Einstein and Millikan should have done a Kurzweil [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
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At SENS4, Cambridge, UK [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
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My AI research: The Semantic Web [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
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My AI research: Graphical models and probabilistic logics [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
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Surprisingly good solutions, falling in love and life in a materialistic universe [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
What do you get when you cross slightly evolved, status seeking monkeys with the scientific method? [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
Seeking the optimal philanthropic strategy: Global Warming or AI risk? [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
Machine Learning - harbinger of the future of AI? [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
At the Singularity Summit in NYC [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
Katja Grace: world-dominating superintelligence is "unlikely" [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
Normal Human Heroes on "Nightmare futures" [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
Anissimov on Intelligence Enhancement [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
Yudkowsky on "Value is fragile" [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
Response to Pearce [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
Creative thinking lets you believe whatever you want [Last Updated On: December 13th, 2009] [Originally Added On: December 13th, 2009]
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