Monday, April 09, 2012

Sentient Developments Episode 2012.04.09

Sentient Developments Podcast for the week of April 9, 2012. Topics discussed in this week's episode:
  • My recap of the Moral Brain conference
  • A review of the attention my Dyson Sphere article is getting
  • A summary of my recent appearance on the al-Jazeera show, The Stream
Tracks used in this episode:
  • Orbital: "Straight Sun"
  • Bear in Heaven: "The Reflection of You"
  • Modeselektor: "Berlin"
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Monday, April 02, 2012

Sentient Developments Episode 2012.04.02

Sentient Developments Podcast for the week of April 2, 2012.
Topics for this week's episode: J. Hughes on democratic transhumanism, personhood theory, and AI; making brains: reverse engineering the human brain to achieve AI; Ben Goertzel and Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Singularity and timelines for AI; could a computer virus merge with a human virus?; and transhumanism meets the 'intelligence principle.'

Tracks used in this episode:
  • Meshuggah: "Behind the Sun"
  • Modeselektor: "Green Light Go"
  • Boards of Canada: "Aquarius"
  • Grimes: "Eight"
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