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Furor Erupts Over Atheist Display At State Capitol
25 December 2009“A conservative activist and Illinois comptroller candidate was escorted from the Illinois State Capitol building Wednesday when he tried to remove a sign put up by an atheist group. William J. Kelly announced Tuesday that he planned to take down the sign put up by the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and on Wednesday, he tried [...]
‘Anonymous’ hacker pleads guilty to 2008 attack on Scientology sites
11 May 2009“According to a news release from the Justice Department’s Los Angeles office, Dmitriy Guzner of Verona, N.J., pleaded guilty to computer hacking charges related to the 2008 distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) on Scientology websites. That’s where hackers get so many zombie computers to visit a site that the server overload becomes crippling and the site crashes. [...]
Anonymous relaunches fight against Scientology
13 August 2008The Anonymous group is calling for disillusioned former members to return to the fold ahead of a new phase in its battle against the Church of Scientology. A video posted on YouTube on Friday said it was time for the original founders of the protest movement to return in time for a “shift to more [...]
What duplicating or backing up your mind really means: Mind snapshots
9 July 2008Shortly after writing the The challenge of mind duplication/transfer post I went seeking others to chat with about this topic. I hoped on irc and had an interesting conversation in a neuroscience channel. It was a great conversation that lead to some very interesting possibilities being discussed. People typically think that duplicating the mind means [...]
New map IDs the core of the human brain
2 July 2008“An international team of researchers has created the first complete high-resolution map of how millions of neural fibers in the human cerebral cortex — the outer layer of the brain responsible for higher level thinking — connect and communicate. Their groundbreaking work identified a single network core, or hub, that may be key to the [...]
Modeling Conciousness: what do we do with AI?
23 June 2008We’ve heard that AI will be the future and change our lives. We’ve seen movies where robots have human personalities and can interact with us as interact with each other. In order to achieve these “AI use cases” you must first understand what it means to be human and more specifically what mimicking our behavior [...]
Media questions Obama’s morality for smoking, imaginary man still ok
11 June 2008Obama was slammed today by the media for smoking. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/06/obama-admits-sm.html Why does the media spend so much time slamming people on nonsense? Its times like these I miss the 1980′s when I don’t remember seeing this sort of crap in the news. What I found most amusing is that the media will slam a person [...]
Existentialism
23 May 2008From wikipedia “Existentialism is a philosophical movement which posits that individuals create the meaning and essence of their lives, as opposed to deities or authorities creating it for them. Existentialism generally postulates that the absence of a transcendent force (God) means that the individual is entirely free, and, therefore, ultimately responsible. It is up to [...]
The challenge of mind duplication/transfer
12 May 2008Others have discussed the concept of duplicating one’s mind or backing it up. Before copying a mind you first need to know 1. How (minor detail!) – While alive – After death 2. How for that organism – Human – Fish 3. The context of what is being duplicated – For the same organism – [...]
Introducing Extropianism
12 May 2008From wikipedia “Extropianism, also referred to as extropism or extropy, is an evolving framework of values and standards for continuously improving the human condition. Extropians believe that advances in science and technology will some day let people live indefinitely and further that humans alive today have a good chance of seeing that day. An extropian [...]
