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Foreign Policy has made a list of the top 100 global thinkers. I'm happy to say that Nick Bostrom is #73 on that list, just over Gordon Brown (and just below Ray Kurzweil and Jamais Cascio). The amusing thing (beside...
The Brain Observatory - In Memory of H.M. webcasts the microtome slicing of H.M.'s brain in realtime. I guess this is a natural step for one of the "superstar patients" of neuroscience. The experience is strangely voyeuristic. We have come...
Practical Ethics: Diluted evidence: is there anything special with homeopathy? - I blog about the committee meeting on the evidence for homoeopathy I attended last week in Westminster. Hurray for Ben Goldacre and Evan Harris. It was an interestingly...
Here is an audio interview courtesy of Marjan Grilj (Slovenian transhumanist association) that I gave in Milan on brain emulation and whole bunch of other subjects. Currently a bit too busy with running around in Westminster as part of the...
Accelerating Future » Toby Ord on BBC for Giving What We Can - a post on my saintly colleague Toby's very worthy project Giving What We Can. Michael writes: "Toby is participating in what I glibly call “utility war” —...
