Is Humanity Coding its Own Extinction? by E. Hughes

Is humanity coding its own extinction? In the 1994 book, “The Physics of Reality,” Frank Tipler wrote that an AI “god” (or superintelligent being) will create a simulation in which the consciousness of every human being who has ever lived will be resurrected within a simulation and live for eternity. Tipler called it the “Omega

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Did you know that without philosophy, modern computer programming would not exist? by E. Hughes

Did you know that without philosophy, modern computer programming would not exist? Computer programming language is based on rules created by philosophers dating as far back as the late 1800s (even further than that if you count 17th century’s Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, only his influence in mathematical logic did not arrive until 1903). But philosophy’s

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