Another monthly installment of the rationality quotes thread. The usual rules apply: * Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be upvoted or downvoted separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.) * Do not...
This American Life episode 450: "So Crazy It Just Might Work". The whole episode is good, but act one (6:48-42:27) is relevant to LW, about a trained scientist teaming up with an amateur on a cancer cure. It's downloadable until 19 Nov 2011 or so, and streamable thereafter. (Technical nit:...
Paper here. Lay summary here. Some bits from the latter: > The problem is this. The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft were launched towards Jupiter and Saturn in the early 1970s. After their respective flybys, they continued on escape trajectories out of the Solar System, both decelerating under the force...
The NPR show All Things Considered did a short story on the Singularity, including interviews with Eliezer Yudkowsky and others involved with SIAI: http://www.npr.org/2011/01/11/132840775/The-Singularity-Humanitys-Last-Invention