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TED (Ideas worth spreading)
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http://www.ted.com/
It rather baffles me if this website has not been made known on here before, I have only just been notified of its presence and think that is essential for \'shuzak types\'.
I apologise if this has been posted before. I have used the search function and can find nothing!
TED is an annual conference in Montreal, where smart people get together to share \'smart\' ideas, whether that be on technological advancement, philosophical questioning, or theo...Click Here | By dazelnut
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Biological computing substrates
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Hello everyone, back again with another weirdest-idea-you'll-hear-all-day.
This one has to do with growing brains in vats and using them to play video games.
I've already mentioned this one before, but as I was looking more at it, I decided that it deserves a thread to iself.
Essentially, the idea is as follows: you take a sample of brain tissue, of reasonable comparitive power to that of human (but probably not exactly a human, to avoid legal...Click Here | By Ati
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The trap: Freedom, democracy and game theory
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The Trap - What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom
Part 1 : F**k You Buddy.
Part 2 :The Lonely Robot
Part 3 : We Will Force You To Be Free
wikipedia
Very interesting documentary, but I don't agree in the conclusion
in the end of part3.
How do like you li...Click Here | By Isomorph
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Viral nanotech
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The other thread about the singularity got me thinking, and the following occured to me:
Cells are basically nanotech factories - they extrude structures and complex materials based on a program coded into their DNA.
This is never more clear than when a cell is infected by a virus. Virii essentially hijack the cells functioning and force it to assemble a complex structure (a copy of the virus). Now, what is interesting is that virii are almost mech...Click Here | By Ati
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untangle this tangle
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hai everyone.. off late i have been thinking.. wat is it tat is more important in life.. is it ethics,morality,honesty,truthfullness and stuff like that or is it. being cunning,politicising issues,well many say the second set of things.. are required if u want live in this world of competition and cut throat competition. Is Darwin's "Survival of the fittest" motto the thing that one should follow and be ruthless.is there a limit somewhere.. a line dividing this competitiveness and a need to rema...Click Here | By kvarun
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