| 2. | When Will Computer Hardware Match the Human Brain? | | | Hans Moravec provides a detailed analysis of the computing power of human neurology, progress in AI as a function of available hardware, and the computing power required to simulate human performance in subdomains such as chess or visual processing.
www.transhumanist.com |
| 3. | Staring into the Singularity | | | Powers, Transcendence, and the ultimate unknowability of dealing with something that's smarter than you are.
sysopmind.com |
| 5. | Surviving the Singularity | | | Steve Alan Edwards interviews five transhumanists on the Singularity. Touches on a broad cross-section of the issues.
members.aol.com |
| 6. | How Long Before Superintelligence? | | | Nick Bostrom's scholarly analysis of the hardware and software required for superintelligence, and when it is likely to arrive.
www.nickbostrom.com |
| 7. | Long-Term Growth as a Sequence of Exponential Modes | | | Trend analysis: Fits the history of economic growth from 2 million B.C. to today as a sequence of growth modes, and suggests that in the next century a new mode may appear where the economy doubles every month or two.
hanson.gmu.edu |
| 9. | John Smart's Nanomagazine.com Interview | | | Mr. Smart provides detailed answers in this singularity-explicit interview, responding to the main objections against the singularity concept, providing information on his studies of the singularity and forthcoming book Destiny of Species, and critiquing Bill Joy's proposed global strategy of technological relinquishment.
www.nanomagazine.com |
| 11. | The Law of Accelerating Returns | | | This paper provides a lucid exposition on the historical exponential growth of complex systems, supported by data from many fields, and provides predictions based on that data.
www.kurzweilai.net |
| 12. | Tearing Toward the Spike | | | Damien Broderick gives an overview of the technological singularity by outlining twelve possible scenarios.
www.kurzweilai.net |
| 15. | Transtopia | | | Includes introductions to transhumanism and singularity and to transtopian principles. Also offers information about related terminology and iconography, history, European Cryonics, and links to a variety of related articles and essays.
www.transtopia.org |
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