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 I'll do a weekend posting. But this merits special attention, illustrating a key point that I make in my new book on Artificial Intelligence - AIlien Minds. That we biorgs - bio-organic humans - will be helpless before Persuasion Bots, unless we find...

As the political insanity heats up, I should slip in science news when I can. So...
I’m interviewed about the outer contours of physics, by renowned UCSD physicist Brian Keating.
As predicted in EARTH… and it could be as important as white light LEDs. “Geothermal energy’s moment is here. Once constrained by niche geologic conditions, the ability to produce ubiquitous, clean power and heat from the earth’s crust is closer... and...

I'm rounding off my own Great Big Book About AI...working title AIlien Minds. You'll hear more about it, soon. Just finished the daunting chapter on 'consciousness.'  Meanwhile, I'll offer are some placekeeper thoughts for the weekend.
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Here’s a thoughtful article about why so many top minds are worried about the downsides of developing Artificial Intelligence or AI. As told by James Barrat, author of Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era: “In the...

The weekend was way too busy, in a dozen ways, to post a blog.  Finished the first draft of my own great big book on AI, for example. (Coming soon, I hope.) Still, let's try for a short, pungent one mid-week.
Nathan Gardels offers an interesting essay, in Noema Magazine, on a coming era of world  "spheres of influence."  Of course, that model of the world has long been desired by some as a replacement for the 80 year, generally benign American Pax, which...