My review of “Our Final Invention” on Singularity Hub

15 million years after the big bang, the entire universe should have been a “habitable zone”. This isn’t a fanciful hypothesis, so much as a straightforward numerical prediction of…

Imagine you’re a drug developer. Your company makes the best antibiotics in the world. Now further imagine that you wake up one day and find out you’re in…

What’s the logical fallacy where you argue for a false conclusion that wouldn’t even follow from your premises if your unrelated evidence happened to be true (but isn’t)…

Do life bearing planets reliably miniaturize themselves down into black holes? This civilization entrapping blunder appears to be a powerful attractor and perhaps the default trajectory for advanced societies….

I wonder if this website reliably puts people in “far mode” thinking patterns? See on hereistoday.com

Excerpt from an interview I did with Adam Ford on why I care about math and AI. See on www.youtube.com

Thanks to Peter Thiel, every donation made to MIRI between now and January 15th, 2014 will be matched dollar-for-dollar! Also, gifts from “new large donors” will be matched 3x!…

Biologists substantially degraded Alzheimer’s plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue by sending a fused protein across the blood-brain barrier. Getting drugs across the blood-brain barrier is…

“According to the Argument from Disagreement (AD) widespread and persistent disagreement on ethical issues indicates that our moral opinions are not influenced by moral facts, either because there…