http://c-realm.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-smell-of-betterness.html

Thanks to peristaltor, prester_scott and  autopope for your feedback. I have incorporated all of your suggestions into the finished post.

I just completed a survey for Socrates of the Singularity Weblog. It's all multiple choice until the end when he asks his readers:

What do you struggle with the MOST when it comes to the singularity?

My Answer:

No struggle with the concept, just no faith that it will happen. I'd like to see more imagination and intelligence invested in exploring the ( Read more... )

Larry Lowe interviewed Nikki Olsen for episodes 250 and 251 of the C-Realm Podcast. There's a discussion thread in response to the episode on a Singularitarian discussion forum which you can find here:

http://singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com/forum/space-exploration-and-seti/the-singularity-and-ufos/

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http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-01-20T13_17_46-08_00

In this whistle stop episode, KMO talks cybernetic consciousness with Eric Boyd and Neil Kramer. Might machine minds prove more resistant to being warped by warped circumstances than ( Read more... )

http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-01-06T06_25_01-08_00

KMO welcomes Noble Ape creator Tom Barbalet to the program to discuss the nature of intelligence. Is survival the best indicator of intelligence? Is there anything special about so ( Read more... )

"If the singularitarian seems unreasonable, it's because the singularitarian is really a mystic who only looks like a rationalist because he started out with a rationalist philosophical structure, ran with that structure into the future and saw the ineffable."
-Psychodelirium (Dog-faced Demon)

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Someone over on the Peak Oil News & Message Boards transcribed large segments of my interview with NASA scientist, Dennis M. Bushnell. You can find it here:

http://www.peakoil.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=42186