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What determines whether changes you make affect you? In principle, anything that happens within your past light cone can affect you...

The problem comes when you try to describe that scenario. The devil is in the details. How would you know if time had stopped on a...

That would be a commute of 30 minutes! Less than it takes me on a busy Monday.

No. Light does not experience time. There is no valid frame of reference for a photon. This is a direct result of the postulates of...

You did not read my post. I disagree. See my post.

That's not really the way they work. A well-designed intelligence test will not be one that you get to take a second time and have it...

Because the whole point is that it's not about what goes on on the inside; it's about results. If it is so sophisticated that you can't...

Just heard this one on the radio this morning. Merriam-Webster* recognizes the only non-Earth language word: grok. (It's Martian) It's...

Is it? Or are you taking it too literally? If I go to Spatula World, that doesn't mean there is one thing that is a spatula; it means...

I think this is missing the forest for the trees. The Turing Test does not place conditions on the tester (except that they are human)...

This is when the OP discovers what happens to puzzle threads after they are solved - they become a home to this sort of enlightened...

If that lasts longer than four hours, see your doctor.

My concern there is that threat-assessment may be short-circuited by existing predispositions about intelligence. I'm sure there are a...

Good. I am becoming more concerned every day. Many experts are arguing it needs to be treated as a threat on the same level as a global...

Is/has anyone read/ing the book "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies"? It's a short yet sobering conjecture about the future of the...