FastForward Radio
Stephen Gordon and guest host Michael Sargent discuss the speech Eliezer Yudkowsky gave at the 2007 Singularity Summit. It turns out that the Singularity means different things to different people. We also covered the DARPA Urban Challenge that happened Saturday, and the new Fab Lab that won a Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Prize.


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Links to the topics we covered:
- The DARPA Urban Challenge.
- The written transcript and audio link for Eliezer Yudkowsky's speech "Introducing the Singularity: Three Major Schools of Thought."
- The 2007 Singularity Summit.
- Fab at Home - an open-source 3D printer that lets users make anything. Popular Mechanics has a video at the link.
- Engineers Teach Nature to 'Grow' Computer Components
Eliezer Yudkowsky emphasized these three distinct schools, and Stephen emphasizes the synthesis of these ideas:
Our friend and listener Matt Duing has started a blog "Cognitive Kaleidoscope." Great name Matt.
Our front bumper is a sampling of Marginal Prophets' "The Difficult Song."
Our exit music this week was "Fill Me Up" from the band Beight. Hear their entire album at Magnatune.com.
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Comments
Love the bit about the baby powder. Insectoid chemical warfare!
Posted by: Phil Bowermaster
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November 6, 2007 08:43 AM
Phil:
The baby powder works! I went out and checked the ant pile last night and they were dead. I even dug down into the bed. It's gone.
- Stephen
Posted by: Stephen Gordon
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November 7, 2007 07:13 AM