Sunday, May 16, 2010

Blogging Heads - Science Saturday: The Great Singularity Debate

I don't buy into any of the singularity stuff, yet I listen to and read these discussions from time to time. Then I share them with you. Enjoy the, uh, "conversation - (I think they need a mediator!).
Eliezer Yudkowsky - Singularity Institute, Less Wrong
Massimo Pigliucci - CUNY–Lehman College, Rationally Speaking



Play entire diavlog
Recorded: May 13 - Posted: May 15
Here are some links to go with this post:


Massimo on David Chalmers and “the Singularity that will probably never come”
Eliezer on “the Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle”
Massimo on “the zombification of philosophy (of mind)”
Eliezer says identity isn’t in specific atoms
David Chalmers, “The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis”

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