Rian Johnson Builds a Better Time Machine - NYTimes.com

Rian Johnson Builds a Better Time Machine - NYTimes.com

Reading this post will destroy your soul | MetaFilter

Reading this post will destroy your soul | MetaFilter:

The Motif of Harmful Sensation (or as TV Tropes calls it, the Brown Note) is a recurring idea in literature: physical or mental damage that a person suffers merely by experiencing what should normally be a benign sensation. The phenomenon appears in both traditional and modern stories.

Inception helmet creates alternative reality | Mo Costandi | Science | guardian.co.uk

Inception helmet creates alternative reality | Mo Costandi | Science | guardian.co.uk

Some Hivemind that I Used to Know

Apparently, Gotye himself created this video mashup of Gotye coverers covering Gotye. Got it?

Beautiful short film shows a frightening future filled with Google Glass-like devices | VentureBeat

Beautiful short film shows a frightening future filled with Google Glass-like devices | VentureBeat:

Here’s an amazing eight-minute-long short film we came across. Created by art school grads Daniel Lazo and Eran May-raz as a final school project, the short shows a not-too-unrealistic future wherein we all walk around with contact lens-like devices that connect us to the cloud — everything from games to entertainment to instruction to dating coaches.

The Superintelligent Will

Minds and Machines, Volume 22, Number 2 - SpringerLink: The Superintelligent Will: Motivation and Instrumental Rationality in Advanced Artificial Agents
Nick Bostrom
From the issue entitled "Special Issue on "Theory and Philosophy of AI""

A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self: 20th Anniversary Edition