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		<title>The Ending Point</title>
		<link>http://antisingularity.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/the-ending-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Mann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I realized around halfway through writing this blog that it was going to eventually end. Everything that I&#8217;ve written here is more or less my opinion (supplemented with facts) and, eventually, I wasn&#8217;t going to have anything additional to say. Which is fine. My original intention was to get a coherent idea of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=antisingularity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7666848&amp;post=228&amp;subd=antisingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Loops and the mind as a computer revisited</title>
		<link>http://antisingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/loops-and-the-mind-as-a-computer-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Mann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might not realise it but this sentence you are reading is changing your gene expression. Any man who can write a sentence like that and mean it is awesome in my book. Anthony Bell is such a man. He is a theoretical neuroscience researcher working on unsupervised machine learning and processing. In my opinion, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=antisingularity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7666848&amp;post=221&amp;subd=antisingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The nonconscious aspect of the mind</title>
		<link>http://antisingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/the-nonconscious-aspect-of-the-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Mann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have said many times, the mind is very complex. Though we have access to a great portion of our thought, an even greater and more powerful part of our brain remains forever hidden. Call it the unconscious (if you want to get psychoanalytic) or the nonconscious part of our brain, it doesn&#8217;t matter. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=antisingularity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7666848&amp;post=214&amp;subd=antisingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Technological Determinism</title>
		<link>http://antisingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/technological-determinism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Mann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think that one of the deepest and most intractable myths in our society is one of technological determinism. It is often casually assumed that we are progressing towards some knowable future of gadgetry and wonder. In science fiction circles (and at SETI) people talk about a &#8220;more advanced civilization&#8221; as if there is only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=antisingularity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7666848&amp;post=202&amp;subd=antisingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;How can I monetize that?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://antisingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/how-can-i-monetize-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Mann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wired magazine has been a staple of mine for years. A few months back, I was thinking of canceling my subscription because they had gotten a little too superlative in their declarations. But then that J.J. Abrams guest editor issue came out (one of the most amazing issues I&#8217;ve ever seen from any magazine, by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=antisingularity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7666848&amp;post=198&amp;subd=antisingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On constructed languages and eliminating pain</title>
		<link>http://antisingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/on-constructed-languages-and-eliminating-pain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Mann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been having trouble tearing myself away from Arika Okrent&#8217;s new book, In the Land of Invented Languages. Language has always fascinated me and this book specifically deals with the various attempts at constructed languages throughout human history. Though there have been many, many attempts few invented languages have actually caught on in any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=antisingularity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7666848&amp;post=194&amp;subd=antisingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putting young whippersnappers into place</title>
		<link>http://antisingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/putting-young-whippersnappers-into-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Mann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best classes I ever took when I was a student at UC Berkeley was Hubert Dreyfus&#8217; Philosophy 7A: Existentialism in Literature and Film. The subject matter was the ideas of Soren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Friedrich Nietzsche through their books and a number of relevant existential movies. The greatest parts of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=antisingularity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7666848&amp;post=180&amp;subd=antisingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Existence is Wonderful</title>
		<link>http://antisingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/existence-is-wonderful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Mann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came across a wonderful blog by a woman named Anne Corwin. She is (in no particular order) an electrical engineer, very smart, a volunteer with the Methuselah Foundation, and autistic. I&#8217;ve been perusing her posts and really like her honest style and enjoyable topics. Many of them touch on similar content to what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=antisingularity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7666848&amp;post=182&amp;subd=antisingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What it&#8217;s like to be a computer</title>
		<link>http://antisingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/what-its-like-to-be-a-computer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Mann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting paper by Thomas Nagel about philosophy of mind that asks &#8220;What is it like to be a bat?&#8220;. Compared to many papers in this field, it is surprisingly readable and the underlying idea is graspable even to someone who isn&#8217;t a philosopher. In the paper, Nagel asks us to imagine the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=antisingularity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7666848&amp;post=169&amp;subd=antisingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Intelligence, More Problems</title>
		<link>http://antisingularity.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/more-intelligence-more-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Mann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As was pointed out to me in recent comments, many Singularitarians consider the best definition of the Singularity to be the point when we achieve smarter than human intelligence. While I have already tried to point out that intelligence is not really a perfectly measurable, objective thing I will concede that qualitative evaluations of intelligence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=antisingularity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7666848&amp;post=162&amp;subd=antisingularity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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