Explore our graphical guide to the advances of the future, from 2013 to 2150. I sometimes point my friends to this diagram when I want to show them…

To my friends who haven’t heard of “Transhumanism”: What do you think of this video? See on www.youtube.com

Intelligence is a very difficult concept and, until recently, no one has succeeded in giving it a satisfactory formal definition. A short primer on Marcus Hutter’s AIXI formalism…

It has been known for decades that sugar consumption doesn’t correlate with the onset of type 2 diabetes later in life (after controlling for BMI). So anyone proposing…

Interesting self-discovery: So I got a Fitbit and was confused by how much it reported I was continuously walking. I actually thought it was broken for 2 months, until I finally figured out…

Wolfram language looks interesting. I’m skeptical that it really handles data and code as similarly as the early buzz claims. And the claim that you can just program…

Can artificial intelligence discover the secret to world peace? Maybe video games can find an answer. People just really want to believe artificial minds magically converge on peaceful,…

My general advice for what smart drugs + supplements to try is remarkably similar to gwern’s: Modafinil/armodafinil Vitamin D Fish oil Creatine Caffeine+theanine Melatonin Piracetam+choline I’m a non-responder…

Add Q-Learning to the list of activities where AIs are now at parity with the average human. The very best humans are still currently better than the very best…

This post presents a further development of the reduced impact AI approach, bringing in some novel ideas and setups that allow us to accomplish more. It still i…

Medical Breakthrough: 100,000 patients a year were dying from hospital acquired infections. Then in 2008, infection rates started plummeting. What brought about the improvement? Technical innovation? Academic studies?…