I’ve created a group for the Singularity Institute on LinkedIn, to encourage professional networking among SIAI supporters and staff. Consider joining if you are an SIAI supporter and use LinkedIn.
Here is a quote from the Chalmers paper that I linked yesterday:
One might think that the singularity would be of great interest to academic philosophers, cognitive scientists, and artificial intelligence researchers. In practice, this has not been the case. Good was an eminent academic, but his article was largely unappreciated at the time. The subsequent [...]Amnon Eden, an organizer of the European conference on Computing And Philosophy, recently sent us this call for papers.
Track in:
8th European conference on Computing And Philosophy — ECAP 2010
Technische Universität München
4–6 October 2010
Important dates:
* Submission (extended abstracts): 7 May 2010
* Notification: 9 May 2010
[...]Recently, David Chalmers announced that he was posting a new paper based on his Singularity Summit 2010 talk: “The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis”. In his announcement, Chalmers notes, “I’m still an amateur on these topics and any feedback would be appreciated.” You can also watch a video of Chalmers’ Summit talk.
Thanks to our donors, yesterday we met our fundraising goal of $100,000 for the 2010 Singularity Research Challenge. SIAI would like to thank the grant’s matching donors and everyone who contributed. Every donation, however small, funds research and advocacy targeted towards maximizing the probability of a positive Singularity.
If you have any [...] The Singularity Institute is pleased to welcome Max Tegmark, professor at MIT and a cosmologist as the newest member of our greatly valued advisory board. Prof. Tegmark has done pioneering research in precision cosmology, “combining theoretical work with new measurements to place sharp constraints on cosmological models and their free parameters”. A [...]