Singularity Summit Day 2
Here’s day two: Singularity Summit 09 Day 2
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Anders Sandberg, and the Ethics of Uploading
Whole Brain Emulation is going to create synthetic humans, if the functionalist point of view of neuroscience is right, by implementing their thought processes in forthcoming hardware, and software systems, which could arrive as early as the middle of this century. What are the rights of these uploads? How will their existence impact our …
Liveblogging the Singularity Summit 2007 – Day Two – afternoon
During the lunch R.U. Sirius interviewed Kevin Kelly. I am looking forward to listen to that podcast soon. 13.06 Michael Lindsay X-Prize Foundation shows a video on the X Prize Foundation, which funded the prize for private space travel won by Burt Rutan’s SpaceShip One team. The foundation is expanding in new areas and Michael …
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Liveblogging the Singularity Summit 2007 – Day Two – morning
I arrived a few minutes late, as I miscalculated my appetite at the breakfast place, which being also popular put our orders in the queue. 🙂 The keynote by Peter Norvig has already started, and as I entered the Palace of Fine Arts Theater, he was saying “So now back to AGI”, which I assume …
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Liveblogging the Singularity Summit 2007 – Day One – afternoon
15.00 Jamais Cascio – The Metaverse (is being skipped?! or maybe speaking later?) Actually looking through the Google Blogsearch links I myself provided in the previous post, I saw that Jamais has already posted the full text of his speech. I guess I will list just a few sentences here and there that strike me …
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Liveblogging the Singularity Summit 2007 – Day One – morning
We got the power supply issues solved, and the wifi is also now working well thanks to the great help from the organizers. 09.40 Peter Thiel, Clarium Capital introducing the Summit: “The 21st Century is going to be far more greater, and/or far more terrible then the 20th Century. We are here to make sure …
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Liveblogging the Singularity Summit 2007?
The Singularity Summit 2007 is about to start at the Palace of Fine Arts Theather in San Francisco. Already at 7.45 about a hundred people were waiting in front of the gates ready to enter. (Update: we were just told to unplug our laptops, so it is unlikely that it will be possible to liveblog. …