Tag: technology
Hyping Artificial Intelligence with Seductive Optics and the Frankenstein Complex
Some of the panicky AI-will-take-over-the-world talk grows out of seductive optics — that is, the AI packaging.
More on Self-Replicating Machines
We know how to build a simple Ford Model T car. Now let’s build a factory inside this car, so that it can produce Model T cars automatically.
From Darwinists, a Shift in Tone on Nanomachines
The shift in tone from then to now is remarkable. What happened to the awe these systems used to inspire?
Zinc and the Miracle of Man
Elemental zinc pulls together multiple themes that biologist Michael Denton writes about in his new book.
The Miracle of Man: Extraordinary “Coincidences” All the Way Down
The fine tuning, what Denton calls anthropic prior fitness, would seem to require foresight and planning on literally a cosmic scale.