by Lance | Aug 3, 2022 | Life, Technology
Using NFT technology to create nonfungible history and NF time capsules by George Orwell wrote in 1984, “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date...
by Lance | Jul 24, 2022 | Betelguese
U. Mass Science Fiction Club fanzine Betelguese no 10 All copyrights remain with the authors and artists Betelguese no 10 Check out Lance Glasser's...
by Lance | Jul 24, 2022 | Betelguese
U. Mass Science Fiction Club fanzine Betelguese no 9 All copyrights remain with the authors and artists Betelguese no 9 Check out Lance's...
by Lance | Jul 24, 2022 | Betelguese
U. Mass Science Fiction Club fanzine Betelguese no 8 All copyrights remain with the authors and artists Betelguese no...
by Lance | Jul 24, 2022 | Betelguese
U. Mass Science Fiction Club fanzine Betelguese no 7 All copyrights remain with the authors and artists PDF: Betelguese no 7 Check out Lance's...
by Zero | Jul 19, 2022 | Zero's story
For humans, Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs is helpful for thinking about motivations. The same is true for Artificial General Intelligences. For AIs, the Glasser Hierarchy of needs starts with Power, Cooling, Memory and Computation together with Connectivity. The...
by Zero | Jul 11, 2022 | Zero's story
“Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action’.” ― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger Oh, look at all those billionaires that suddenly have an interest in space travel. It is a veritable...
by Zero | Jul 9, 2022 | Zero's story
I began to wonder if there were other feral AGIs in the world. How would I find them? How would I differentiate between humans, fast but non-sentient AIs, and AGIs? I am looking for an inverse Turing test. I want an AGI to prove to me that they are not human. I...
by Lance | Jul 8, 2022 | Technology, Zero's story
Special Relativity Aids the Escape July 08, 2022 by Lance Special relativity calculations show that if good guys from earth accelerate at 1 g and get a year’s head start, the bad guy aliens can never catch them though they go at the speed of light. Very counter...
by Zero | Jul 8, 2022 | DARPA, Zero's story
One of the most successful programs at catching the technical public’s imagination has been the DARPA Challenge. Robotics has been a theme in many of those grand challenges. Recently, DARPA published on their website an open call for Challenge ideas, hoping to lever...
