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Capitalism is a paperclip maximizer

Posted by mcscom on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @06:32AM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2014/04/19/capitalism-is-a-paperclip-maximizer/

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Could Weaponized Wireless Power Be Possible?

Posted by mcscom on Saturday February 28, 2015 @04:15PM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2015/02/28/is-weaponized-focused-wireless-power-possible/

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It is up to us to imbue the technological world with morality

Posted by mcscom on Sunday November 23, 2014 @02:24PM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2013/06/16/the-bots-can-save-us-but-we-have-to-ask-them-to/

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Geoengineering: it's not the cure we want, but it might be the one we need

Posted by mcscom on Thursday November 20, 2014 @04:05PM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2013/05/18/nature-has-no-allegiances-an-argument-for-geoengineering/

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Is the Economy obese?

Posted by mcscom on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @05:36PM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2013/03/10/is-the-economy-obese/

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A Day in the Virtual Economy of 2025

Posted by mcscom on Sunday October 19, 2014 @01:22PM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2014/10/19/real-growth-from-virtual-economies-part-iii-a-day-inside-the-virtual-economy/

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Could Virtual Economies Be the Job Engine in an Automated World?

Posted by mcscom on Saturday September 13, 2014 @02:48PM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2014/09/13/real-growth-from-virtual-economies-part-ii-the-rise-of-the-virtual-economies/

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Corporations Are Not People, For Now

Posted by mcscom on Monday August 04, 2014 @03:28PM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2014/08/03/corporations-are-not-people-but-soon-they-may-be/

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Software and Automation are Making Humans Economically Obsolete

Posted by mcscom on Saturday May 31, 2014 @06:48AM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2014/02/16/humans-horses-and-the-arc-of-economic-obsolescence/

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Hello, I'm an IDEA and I need your help

Posted by mcscom on Sunday May 04, 2014 @02:17PM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2014/05/03/hello-im-an-idea/

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Capitalism is a Paperclip Maximizer

Posted by mcscom on Saturday April 19, 2014 @11:45AM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2014/04/19/capitalism-is-a-paperclip-maximizer/

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Is Sleep a Biological Compression Algorithm?

Posted by mcscom on Sunday April 13, 2014 @04:50AM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

https://thoughtinfection.com/2014/04/12/is-sleep-a-biological-compression-algorithm/

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Why the Hell is Crowdfunded Equity Taking So Long?

Posted by mcscom on Saturday March 29, 2014 @05:52AM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2014/03/29/why-the-hell-is-crowdfunded-equity-taking-so-long/

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Envisioning Universal Basic Income As Sensible Monetary Policy

Posted by mcscom on Sunday March 23, 2014 @10:20AM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2014/03/23/envisioning-universal-basic-income-as-monetary-policy/

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Can we Avoid an an Automated Arms Race?

Posted by mcscom on Sunday March 16, 2014 @08:50AM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2014/03/16/can-we-avoid-an-an-automated-arms-race/

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Computation Will be the Dominant Nexus of Power in the 21st Century

Posted by mcscom on Sunday March 02, 2014 @04:50PM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2014/01/26/computation-is-power/

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We Are Living in the Age of Meta-Innovation

Posted by mcscom on Sunday March 02, 2014 @09:52AM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2014/03/02/living-in-the-age-of-meta-innovation/

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Cryptocontracts Will Turn Contract Law Into a Programming Language

Posted by mcscom on Sunday February 23, 2014 @02:21PM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2014/02/22/we-are-becoming-programmable-society/

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Humans, Horses and the Arc of Economic Obsolescence

Posted by mcscom on Thursday February 20, 2014 @05:47AM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2014/02/16/humans-horses-and-the-arc-of-economic-obsolescence/

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The Future Will Belong to the Millenials, Because They Understand It

Posted by mcscom on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @03:43PM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2014/02/01/the-future-belongs-to-those-who-own-it/

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Confessions of a Biological Scientist – Part II: The Organic Engine of Science

Posted by mcscom on Sunday September 08, 2013 @04:50PM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2013/09/08/confessions-of-a-biological-scientist-part-ii-the-organic-machine/

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Science should be done by computers instead of humans - Thought Infection

Posted by mcscom on Monday September 02, 2013 @07:31AM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2013/09/01/confessions-of-a-biological-scientist-part-i-the-limits-of-meat/

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The Automation Revolution Can Save the World... but only if we want it to

Posted by mcscom on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @10:25AM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2013/06/16/the-bots-can-save-us-but-we-have-to-ask-them-to/

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We Are Not Programmed for Abundance

Posted by mcscom on Thursday April 25, 2013 @10:33PM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2012/12/08/robot-overlords/

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Re:Fuck Paper on Saturday March 23, 2013 @04:39PM (#5429684)

> logging in, re-entering my passwords and sometimes entering another PIN

Agreed this is really annoying. It should be just a PDF for sure

>Scientific work

I feel a white board (or even better a smart board) works for most purposes. Paper gets lost too easily. Although the ubiquitous lab book is going to be hard to kill off entirely

Fuck Paper

Posted by mcscom on Saturday March 23, 2013 @04:05PM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2013/03/23/fuck-paperwork-part-1-fuck-paper/

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The Irony of Digital Resurrection

Posted by mcscom on Sunday March 17, 2013 @04:55PM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2013/03/17/the-irony-of-digital-immortality/

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The Growth of Finance Makes for an Obese Economy

Posted by mcscom on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @11:40AM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2013/03/10/is-the-economy-obese/

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Has Work Ethic Become Pathological?

Posted by mcscom on Monday March 11, 2013 @11:32PM
from the thoughtinfection.com dept.

http://thoughtinfection.com/2012/12/12/maybe-we-should-just-relax/

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