This week, Donald Trump said he hoped to get to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, which is troubling since he’s only familiar with one judge.
I presided over the case of the missing pancake.
- Brad Templeton explains why superintelligence is inevitable.
- 2016 may be an inflection point for settling driverless-car legal issues.
- Maybe driverless and drones will make food-delivery startups work?
- Jacob Weisberg says our new tools are making us more like machines.
- Weisberg did an AMA about his new Ronald Reagan bio.
- Geoff Dyer writes that the Pentagon aims to automate war.
- A Chinese experiment in “emotional computing” is a huge Turing test.
- Neuroengineer Ed Boyden discusses collecting data to decipher brain function.
- India just figured out that Marc Andreessen is an arrogant blowhole.
- So many influential geniuses were nurtured in ancient Athens. Why?
- Tomorrow’s hospitals may be “doctor-less.”
- Cory Doctorow asks if Wikipedia’s anti-hierarchy works in the non-virtual world.
- John Perry Barlow revisits his idealistic Davos edict 20 years later.
- An 1857 essay predicted a Global Village with Internet shopping.
- Roland Miller’s photo collection looks at yesterday’s NASA structures.
- Vice visits a competition among those driven to complete Musk’s Hyperloop.
- Old Print Article: Pneumatic railroads predicted. (1867)
- A brief note from 1919 about a butterfly-killing contest.
- A brief note from 1897 about a fat baby.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.