Homo Evolutis Info archive
Date : June 2011
How longer would we cope with Death? Without a doubt it is a question to which we would turn over and over again until we refuse the indignity to die from Natural causes (it is capital N because it is Nature to blame). And surely we will overcome death sooner that later. But the question[…]
(Some comments provoked by this article or at least by its title): http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201106/humans-keep-getting-faster-why-not-horses Shortest answer is “Duh!” This is one of those peripheral signs of technological progress that you notice but you never seem to notice. The original article only scratches the surface of the issue but one might as well read about Oscar Pistorius[…]
A brief timeline of the discovery breakthrough: 1880s: the possibility of matter with negative gravity was discussed by William Hicks. 1880s – 1890s: Karl Pearson proposed the existence of negative matter in the flow of aether. 1898: The term antimatter was first used by Arthur Schuster. He hypothesized antiatoms, whole antimatter solar systems and discussed[…]
This is an ancient (4 years old) material that is very informative and is general recommendation to everyone. It is an abstract of a lecture (Steve Omohundro at 2007 Singularity Summit) on the effects of self-improving AI. What is fascinating is the hint of how AI is perceived in an organizational context and what are the[…]
