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Inside the mind of the octopus (Orion Magazine)

Octopuses have long fascinated me. I wonder what it must be like not to have a skeleton. One thing has been clear …

I Now Have a Political Litmus Test

All my adult life, I have avoided applying any political litmus test when choosing candidates for office—especially for Congress or the Presidency. I held that people running in an election should be evaluated by the balance of their stands on issues, not focus in on just one small area. My stance on this has now changed.

Intelligence: The Evolution of Night Owls | Psychology Today

The study thinks 12:29am (1:44am on weekends) is late? Amateurs. If you’re still awake after 3:30am, we’ll talk. Intelligence: The Evolution of …

Believe – Part 3, Having Vision

Any intelligence is effectively useless without an ability to perceive that which is external to the intelligence. The key to vision isn’t the how of image gathering, but the processing and interpretation of the images gathered.

Believe – Part 2, The Necessity of Chaos

Construction of our AAI will require many elements to work together for sentience to be achieved. The glue we will use comes from chaos theory.

Believe – The General Purpose AAI Robot Project – Part 1, Overview

Who doesn’t want to build a really smart robot? The trouble is, many people don’t think outside the box enough. Me? I don’t think it needs to be a box. I say we start designing for the possibilities soon to come instead of holding ourselves back.

T:TSCC The Turk, Skynet, and Libertarian Terminators

In Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles, what if Skynet isn’t the offspring of the Turk…but Cameron is? There are clues that might point in that direction.

Dumber Than You Think, Smarter Than I Think

It’s a weird sort of life when people think you’re smart. When they don’t know something, they rely on your track record of being right about things a lot of the time. When they feel they have a leg up and you don’t agree with them, then clearly you don’t have a clue.