The Multiverse According to Ben

Someone asked me recently about Frank Tipler's book The Physics of Immortality . This was my reply: Yeah, I read that book many years...

I found this perplexing email in my inbox just now... From: Prime Intellect < prime @opencog.org > Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:58 PM...

This interview of me was conducted by Mads Mastrup (aka Heimdall) for the Danish website Transhumanisten . It took place vi...

I've argued in several places, e.g. here and in The Hidden Pattern , that three basic values (independent of the specifics of human cul...

Along with practical work on the OpenCog design (and a host of other research projects!), during the past few years I've written a seri...

I was recently invited to submit a paper to a forthcoming academic edited volume on the Singularity. As a first step I had to submit a...

When chatting with a friend about various government systems during a long car drive the other day (returning from New York where we were hi...

Amara Angelica pointed me to an article in IEEE Spectrum titled MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors Fascinating indeed! I'm often skept...

A few weeks ago I wrote an article for H+ Magazine about the exciting precognition results obtained by Daryl Bem at Cornell University. Rec...

It was my pleasure to briefly participate in Giulio Prisco's Turing Church Online Workshop 1 , on Saturday November 20 2010 in Teleplace...

I recently wrote a blog post about my own AI project , but it attracted a bunch of adversarial comments from folks influenced by the Singula...