Why You’re Probably Living in a Simulation
Imagine a future human civilization with unparalleled computing capabilities. So much so that they are capable of simulating, let’s say, the 20th century, including every person, animal and tree that […]
Imagine a future human civilization with unparalleled computing capabilities. So much so that they are capable of simulating, let’s say, the 20th century, including every person, animal and tree that […]
Seven things that annoy me about science these days. The hypes. Yes, we discovered the Higgs boson. It is a particle that was predicted long ago and was an integral […]
All kinds of news are appearing lately about the end of the world. Sadly for us imaginative types, most of the pieces are just a list of reasons why the […]
David Yerle read recently that Big Data is becoming a global nervous system. The constant stream of information is gathered into billions of nodes which process it in a matter […]
David Yerle just read an article that may change his life. Well, just a little. Apparently, a group of psychologists in a university he forgot just found out writing your […]
David Yerle writes about what the world is made of. It seems an easy question to answer: probably most people will say “stuff,” since the world is indeed made of […]
David Yerle writes about emergence. Emergence is a concept that is somewhat hard to define, so David Yerle will try to give several explanations which should complement each other. When […]
David Yerle writes about energy. He wants to demistify the concept a bit and, especially, to remove the mystical aura that seems to surround it. The concept of energy appeared […]
David Yerle writes about the threat of advanced artificial intelligence. He has recently read about the creation of the Center for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) in CambridgeUniversity and […]
David Yerle writes about the possibility of knowledge. What he wants to think about is whether it’s possible to know anything at all or, on the contrary, we’re pretty screwed. […]
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