Research group focuses on synthetic biology, artificial intelligence and environmental threats UPDATED : Sunday, 16 March, 2014, 3:23am Kate Whitehead Illustration: Sarene Chan Consider these two scenarios – supercomputers take over the world, destroying their human creators; or else a… Read More ›
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Do we live in a computer simulation? UW researchers say idea can be tested
By Vince StricherzNews and Information A decade ago, a British philosopher put forth the notion that the universe we live in might in fact be a computer simulation run by our descendants. While that seems far-fetched, perhaps even incomprehensible, a… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 