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Kurzweil, Ray
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Sections of the book that ARE particularly required:
I.) Chapter 1 through the middle of Chapter 4
( Pages 1 thru 157) and (188 thru 203)
II.) Chapter 5 through Chapter 8
( Pages 205 thru 426)
III. ) The Epilogue and Portions of Chapter 9
(Pages 427 thru 435; 458 thru 489 )
In total, about 430 pages (as opposed to 648)
compare against these articles:
Review of The Singularity is Near -- by Ray Kurzweil
(Bill Hibbard, October 2005)
A good book, but it fails to adequately address the dangers of AI
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/g/kurzweil_review.html
Also see other comments by Hibbard at
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/g/singularity_summit.html
Singularity vs Collapse
http://restless-coder.livejournal.com/32514.html
Tips: Check the Index for the following references:
�Accelerating Change?Conference
Law of Accelerating Returns
Moore�s Law
Algorithmic information content (AIC)
Anthropic Principle
Brownian Motion
Cambrian Explosion
Chinese Room Analogy
CPEB protein
Grandfather Paradox
Hippocampus and an Artificial Olivocerebellar Region
Iteration
Moral intelligence
Prions
Spindle Cells
The Date Kurzweil Sets for Singularity (p. 136)
The Six Paradigms (Identify each of them.)
Uploading the brain
Wolfram, Stephen (Cellular Automata, p. 85)
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