Tag: George Gilder
“Are We Spiritual Machines?”
The event at which I moderated the discussion about Ray Kurzweil’s book was the 1998 George Gilder Telecosm conference.
George Gilder: Can a Computer Model a Brain?
“The brain is not billions of little computers. It vastly exceeds the most powerful computers in efficiency but it is not directed to calculation as such.”
Jay Richards at COSM Talks Ray Kurzweil and Strong AI
Is the “singularity” coming, as Kurzweil argues there and elsewhere, when machines equal and then quickly surpass human intelligence?
COSM Conference: A Bonfire for Tech Vanities
Peter Thiel assailed the “Atheist Church,” as he calls the universities, calling for outsiders to push for a reformation that the academic priesthood will never undertake on its own.
Species Dysphoria: Former Archbishop of Canterbury on Aeschliman’s Restoration of Man
An observation by Rowan Williams, that many of us “don’t want to be human,” is a profound insight.