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- Charles Platt: The Silicon Man
Great book – I liked this very much! Without giving too much away, it is about the possibility of uploading people into complex computers. The first part is mainly a detective story which I did not find too impressive, but …
- AI Engineering To Singularity
Fascinating article by Ben Goertzel about Is AI Engineering the Shortest Path to a Positive Singularity?: he says that with a ‘AI Manhattan Project’ an artificial general intelligence could be built within about …
- Singularity And Religion
From “A Rapture for the Rest of Us” by Glenn Harlan Reynolds:
Jihadists are strapping on suicide bombs today, in the hope of attaining the kind of environment that virtual reality will deliver in … - Charles Stross: Accelerando
A science fiction book for Slashdot geeks … I would guess it is quite hard to understand, if one is not a bit dedicated to this world and has not heard of these terms (Matrioshka brain etc) before and does …
- Singularity
Best see the Wikipedia page.
