The case for why NASA should pivot to searching for current — not ancient — signs of life.
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Big Think recently spoke with Nick Bostrom about how humans might find fulfillment in a post-scarcity world.
The soft robotic models are patient-specific and could help clinicians zero in on the best implant for an individual.
Engagement with generative AI is a business essential — but all companies should be vigilant.
In this preview from “The Saucerian,” author Gabriel Mckee explains how the combination of fantastical stories and obscure bureaucracy launched the “space age of the imagination.”
The nature of “the mind” is always vast and clear no matter how swamped by information we feel — and leaders can learn to embrace this space.
They cost $1,400 and will make you feel like you’re always on a moving sidewalk.
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From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.
Mars, the red planet, was a world we knew almost nothing about until our first spacecraft visited it. In just ~50 years, how far we’ve come!
These missions will put us one step closer to the ultimate goal: crewed trips to Mars.
We might be dining on insect-based Christmas pies with robot-harvested algae on the side.
“It can truly allow you to see the physical world in ways that were not possible before.”
Automation could help fix the company’s financial troubles.
Oxford professor of ethics, John Tasioulas, thinks we should consider the loss of opportunity for “striving and succeeding” that AI is likely to bring.
From “crave” packs to Valentine bookings, the world’s first fast-food hamburger chain values innovation from every level of the organization.
The automated McDonald’s has a staff comparable to other stores. But the crew members are all focused on making and packaging orders instead of delivering them.
The fictitious 31st-century world portrayed by the series is actually quite a bit like our own in the 21st century.
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Sixty years ago, the Soviet Union was way ahead of the USA in the space race. Then one critical event changed everything.
The road from Kant to modern cognitive psychology has taught us much about our mental filtering systems.
“We are racing towards a new era in which we outsource cognitive abilities that are central to our identity as thinking beings,” writes computer scientist Louis Rosenberg.
Who should be compensated?
The idea that consciousness emerges naturally alongside intelligence could be an anthropocentric distortion.
We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.
If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.
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Smaller family networks, more great-grandparents, and fewer cousins.
Aptera expects to begin delivering its solar-powered car later in 2022.