Free coworking day on Jan 8th at Berkeley NextSpace. I’ve heard it’s a good shared office space. And it’s very close to MIRI and CFAR’s downtown office if…

A new paper by Luke Muehlhauser and Nick Bostrom, “Why We Need Friendly AI,” has been published in the latest issue of the Cambridge journal Think: Philosophy for Everyone.

This archive file was compiled from audio of a discussion futurist FM 2030 held at the University of California, February 6th, 1994.

14 million Americans are on disability — even though the vast majority of those recipients didn’t qualify for disability the first time they applied. It turns out that hundreds…

Many of us want a “Minority Report”-style interface to control our computers. There are many options that are “almost ready” for prime time but all have their drawbacks…

It says… something… about modern medicine that, (1) the default treatment for cancer patients is poisoning them, and (2) the most promising hypothesis that an actual researcher could…

A literature review on training finds that only 17 traits and techniques are robustly associated with later real world performance. Popular things that *do not* have good evidence:…

Still 2 days left to apply for a Thiel “20 under 20” fellowship in 2014! See on www.thielfellowship.org

The fact that federal agencies ever allocated money to fuel cell research is pretty damning evidence that even the most elite scientists in US government don’t know how to…

Clearest explanation of the “intelligence explosion” ever.

Glad that MIT researchers have demonstrated a proof-of-concept that you can accurately scan soft tissues and bones much better than current x-rays. Although, it would be much cooler…