Doomsday and Conscious Machines

Penultimate Draft 17/dec/2008
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Every Conscious Machine Drives us Closer to Death

“Every time the clock ticks ‘plus one’,’plus one’,’plus one’,
it will be telling you ‘one less’,’one less’, ‘one less’…”
Abril Despedaçado

The Doomsday Argument is alive and kicking, and since its formulation in the [...]

It has Begun, Welcome to Human Enhancement

It is now the 11 of December, 2008, the day after the day when human enhancement has shown its face to the world.
Yesterday an article on Nature Magazine came about online.
The authors include Michal Gazzaniga, and are heretofore to be known as The Seven who began it all.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7223/full/456702a.html
This is the article, with it, an age [...]