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Link Three arguments against the singularity
This is my take on the singularity: we're not going to see a hard take-off, or a slow take-off, or any kind of AI-mediated exponential outburst. What we're going to…

June 23 2011, 2:48am | Comments
Link The Limits of Science
Good sense is the most fairly distributed commodity in the world, Descartes once quipped, because nobody thinks he needs any more of it than he already has. A neat illustration…

September 16 2010, 7:12am | Comments
Link Ideas of the Century: Non-Critical Thinking
Back in 1981, R.M. Hare, in his book Moral Thinking, featured a distinction that today I still find useful. Hare admitted that the distinction was not original with him, but…

August 21 2010, 3:16pm | Comments
Link Sceptic challenges guru to kill him live on…
When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly. Sanal…

March 21 2010, 12:49pm | Comments
Link What Skepticism Reveals about Science
“The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth?…

June 24 2009, 3:26pm | Comments

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