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Percontations
Big Questions involving philosophy, science, spirituality and religion
August 2009
Aug 23, 2009 — Anthony Aguirre & Clifford Johnson
- The recent evolution of theoretical cosmology
- Eternal inflation and the possibility of a beginningless universe
- Can string theory explain why our world looks four-dimensional?
- The Anthropic Principle: How unlikely is our universe?
- Remembering string theorists' early optimism
- In search of alternatives to inflation and to string theory
Aug 16, 2009 — Eliezer Yudkowsky & Scott Aaronson
- When will we build the first superintelligence?
- Why quantum computing isn't a recipe for robot apocalypse
- How to guilt-trip a machine
- The evolutionary psychology of artificial intelligence
- Eliezer contends many-worlds is obviously correct
- Scott contends many-worlds is ridiculous (but might still be true)
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