seregine | Shared With: Everyone - 18 days ago | philosophy, technology, culture, ai
by Nick Bostrom, Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University. Great job title!
Quoted: This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true:
(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage;
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.
Quoted: It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - 23 days ago | photos, seattle, capitol hill, culture, art
City Market is our neighborhood convenience stores that puts out ever-changing hand drawn signs on the sidewalk. This Flickr pool collects those signs.
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 24 2008 | web, internet, web 2.0, society, culture, email, design
A really easy website for sharing files, notes, anything. No signup required, you just send your post as email to post@posterous.com (with attachments if you like), and they take care of the rest. Simple, beautiful - a model design.
Disclaimer: I know Garry, one of the founders, from college.
Quoted: posterous - The place to post everything. Just email us.
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 23 2008 | people, business, culture, education
I wonder if this essay isn't a decade late. Seems obvious, no?
Quoted: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 28 2008 | people, media, culture, internet, society
An interesting perspective on recent history: industrialization created free time (unused mental capacity or "cognitive surplus"), TV filled it at first but now we are finding more constructive ways to apply it.
Quoted: I started telling [a TV producer] about the Wikipedia article on Pluto...She heard this story and she shook her head and said, "Where do people find the time?" That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years."
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 25 2008 | people, culture, guns, new mexico
Was looking for CSS metalanguage, stumbled on this.
Quoted: The closest you'll get to the Old West short of a time machine!
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 18 2008 | mechturk, poll, people, culture, social
My photo got evaluated by MechTurk workers. The results are crushing. Apparently I'm ugly, untrustworthy, and old.
Post your results if you try it...
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 10 2007 | music, culture
An interesting history of indie pop.
Quoted: Indie pop is not just "indie" that is "pop." Not too many people realize this, or really care either way. But you can be sure indie pop's fans know it.
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 03 2007 | people, health, culture
Redotting from Nathan. From now on, I fox-walk everywhere.
Quoted: No shirt, no shoes, no service. But humans weren't born in shoes. The way we walk in shoes is devastating, not natural, as Tom Brown, Jr. put it. What he calls fox walking--walking the way humans evolved to walk--can restore our broken health, heal our constant pain, and even put us immediately back in touch with the rest of the living world around us, ...
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 25 2007 | people, culture, internet
A generalizing comparison of Facebook and MySpace users, with a bit of history and links to interesting ideas in sociology.
Quoted: Some teens are flocking to MySpace. And some teens are flocking to Facebook. Who goes where gets kinda sticky... probably because it seems to primarily have to do with socio-economic class.
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