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The guy with the hockey stick will be the first to be hunted down - if he isn't alive by then, they will go after his children, grand-children etc.

Boston Dynamics recently unveiled its newest humanoid ATLAS robot. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY

Indeed the question is not whether the expansion of AI (the so called technological singularity is a different matter) will displace labour; clearly it will not because an economy must necessarily be circular with respect to money. Let me clarify that with this extreme hypothetical scenario -...

Hey don't worry about that, most physicists themselves don't really 'understand' this stuff either if we use the word 'understand' in the sense of the every-day term where it means to grasp something intuitively. The legendary physicist Richard Feynman once said something to the effect that...

The middle class is indeed rapidly vanishing in the west now. For the case of the US, this issue has been documented and discussed at book-length by such different folk as the libertarian Charles Murray and the leftist Robert Putnam. This is in part the reason for the popularity of both Trump...

Freakenstein your comment on the corporations just reminded me of a pretty optimistic prophesy of an essay by the physicist Freeman Dyson touching the themes of this thread. Dyson being the truly great mind that he is envisions a future that I suspect will appeal both to communist-ideologues...

Chapter summary spoiler from 4chan

Just a few days before the authorization of the licence, a team at Harvard published this paper "High-fidelity CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases with no detectable genome-wide off-target effects." The first ever use of CRISPR on human embryos some months ago in China had been an unsuccessful experiment -...

This is more like an extreme form of artificial selection - all you are doing is replacing human alleles with other existing human alleles (no cross-species genetic engineering, yet), not really comparable to some of the extreme forms of GMO foods. Here is one gene that will become very common...

From the 1st February 2016 nature article "UK scientists gain licence to edit genes in human embryos:" Very exciting stuff - didn't personally think any western country would approve of CRISPR-Cas9 research on humans in the current political zeitgeist. In the end, however much strictly we...

Its official now - from the telegraph article "Islamic State setting up terror training camps in Europe, police agency warns": Another gem from the telegraph titled "Isil exploiting migrant routes to smuggle jihadists back to Britain using fake documents": The Swiss have already begun...

"Addendum: National Review adds luster to Trump's candidacy" by Michael Scheuer):

That's a rather partial way of putting it; Id prefer to say that we could learn something from prophet Muhammad himself who, on his death bed, gave the following advice (note the emphasis): http://www.quranexplorer.com/hadith/english/Hadith/bukhari/004.052.288.html

A very naive assessment - let me show you the wisdom of the founder of that religion. From Bukhari: http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/052-sbt.php#004.052.269 The instances where the prophet himself applied his precept of deception are numerous (from the numerous...