Another Pluto comment

Just another pointer to my Pluto/planet post.

RepRap question

Have any Reprap made pieces been used in a Reprap machine yet? Follow the link for any followup discussion.

PS3 as a supercomputer

Comment on a post at the Speculist.

Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky

A comment about Vinge, the Singularity and his two far future books.

Bogus (but funny) Game AI article?

Looks to me like this article is more than a little tounge-in-cheek.

"We figure with eight million people working eighteen hour shifts, that we can satisfy our needs."

Hmm, even in third world countries, I would guess the total costs involved in paying and administering eight million employees would be prohibitive.

The overall tone of the article, plus a couple of others I read on that web site, suggest that it's not serious.

See also this one: Turning Life into RPG

Comment on L2SI

Brief description of how lots of plugin hybrids could help our electrical grid.

Comment on another AI blog

Wish list for future iRobot household 'bots.

Simulating nanomachines

Just linking to a comment I made on an interesting blog where someone is posting results of nanomachine simulations.

Space Cynics: An Argument For "Youth"-anasia, Redux

Space Cynics: An Argument For "Youth"-anasia, Redux

This is part of a post on the Space Cynics blog:

Is our species ready to make the leap off this rock, before we figure out what is fundamentally wrong with our culture/civilisation/society/whatever, or are we doomed to carry the seeds of this sort of behaviour with us throughout the cosmos?

I would suggest that by having multiple new 'homes' for humanity, maybe (just maybe) we can experiment more with different cultures, societies and governments. Possibly leading to better solutions than anything we've come up with so far.