The Exception That Doesn’t Exactly Contradict the Rule

Published at: 10:10 am - Wednesday October 21 2009

Position statement here. While replying to a batch of comments on a recent thread, I encountered the following sentiment from Seruko: I am somewhat troubles by the lack of self-pimping. I really wanted to read ‘The Island’ but didn’t know it had been published until a month or so ago. If you can’t shill for […]

Posted in: misc, public interface by Peter Watts 22 Comments

Flowers for Hobbie-J

Published at: 08:10 am - Wednesday October 21 2009

A single gene.   A single tweak.  Synapse speed boosted by perhaps a hundred milliseconds, tops. Transgenic Genius rats.  (PopSci story here.) Who’da thunk it would be so easy?  And how long before I can get these NR2B boosters in a nasal spray?

Posted in: Dumbspeech, neuro, sentience/cognition by Peter Watts 14 Comments