Godwin’s Law: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1.” In 2016, Microsoft gifted to the world a chat…
Category: Digital Brain
Sex between species is relatively rare, but it does happen. Seals have forced themselves on penguins out of sexual frustration; dolphins have taken to cetaceans…
In his recent TED talk, Sam Harris discusses the looming rise of superintelligent machines, and our lackluster emotional response. He points out that, unless something…
If surfing the web became as quick and effortless as thinking a thought, would the web not seem to be another aspect of the mind?…
When you turn on your new computer, what do you do? You play around, figure out how it works, you get to know it. Figure…
By now you’re probably aware that much of what you do online is being recorded. The main point behind this recording is prediction. People want…
The line between remembering and forgetting is hazy. We struggle with things on the tips of our tongues, know we have seen someone before but can’t…