humanity
09/04/2017 - 17:15
I. RUNNING AMOK
It was just a friendly little argument about the fate of humanity. Demis Hassabis, a leading creator of advanced... →
19/12/2016 - 15:32
But perception can be deceptive, and memory can be unreliable; even this kind of direct knowledge is not certain. And there are kinds of... →
08/12/2016 - 12:34
As a research astrophysicist, I can say without exaggeration that a day never goes by when I am not impressed by the amazing explanatory... →
23/06/2016 - 12:01
Back in 1961, scientist Frank Drake came up with the first equation to predict how many spacefaring civilizations there were in the... →
18/05/2016 - 13:19
1) A Particle Accelerator Disaster
By accidentally unleashing exotic forms of matter from particle accelerators, we run the risk of... →
12/03/2016 - 13:49
Today, every sovereign nation in the world has a protected-area system of some kind. All together the reserves number about 161,000 on land... →
22/01/2016 - 18:41
On the other hand it would have to be small enough to accelerate to a fairly high speed, to shorten the voyagers’ time of exposure to... →
30/07/2015 - 10:57
"Unlike nuclear weapons, [autonomous weapons] require no costly or hard-to-obtain raw materials, so they will become ubiquitous and cheap... →
05/07/2015 - 11:02
Those in Halo are gigantic artificial worlds, where people are able to live on the sprawling landmasses on the inner side of the ring,... →
17/01/2015 - 16:10
Rather than fear-mongering, the letter is careful to highlight both the positive and negative effects of artificial intelligence. “There is... →
06/01/2015 - 17:15
Scholars are still trying to tease out the complex factors that drive an individual or a nation toward atheism, but there are a few... →
22/05/2014 - 15:13
Get out of here. I have a hundred thousand things I am concerned about at this exact moment. Do I seriously need to add to that a... →