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Putting Real Science in Science Fiction

July 5, 2023 caseydorman

One of the masters of so-called, “hard” science fiction is Arthur C. Clarke. With degrees in mathematics and physics, Clarke…

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Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Casey Dorman Newsletter, Casey Dorman's Writer's Blog/Fan Page, consciousness, Science Fiction, Space

A Dire Warning from AI Experts

May 31, 2023 caseydorman

“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and…

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Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Casey Dorman Newsletter, Casey Dorman's Writer's Blog/Fan Page, consciousness, Opinion, Science Fiction

Review of “Sleeping Giants” by Sylvain Neuvel

May 28, 2023 caseydorman

Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel Del Rey Books, 2016 I bought this book based on an ad and its New…

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What’s Geoffrey Hinton Really Afraid Of?

May 8, 2023 caseydorman 1 Comment

Last week, Google’s Chief AI scientist, Geoffrey Hinton, sometimes referred to as the “Godfather of AI,” resigned and offered interviews…

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Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Casey Dorman Newsletter, Casey Dorman's Writer's Blog/Fan Page, Opinion

Can Science Fiction Rescue Our Future?— Population Growth, Fertility, Automation, and Nationalism

April 9, 2023 caseydorman

Elon Musk recently sent out the alarm that, “Italy is disappearing!” No, he didn’t mean that Venice was slipping underwater,…

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The Most Dangerous Epoch of All

March 20, 2023 caseydorman

In 2000, Eugene Stormer and Paul Crutzen introduced the title “Anthropocene” to denote the modern epoch in which “major and still…

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Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Casey Dorman Newsletter, Casey Dorman's Writer's Blog/Fan Page, Opinion, Science Fiction Filed under: AI, Global Warming, scifi, spacetravel, Technology

AIs Can Think, But They Don’t Know What They Are Doing*

March 10, 2023 caseydorman

In Cixin Liu’s “The Dark Forest,” the second book in the Chinese sci-fi writer’s “The Three-Body Problem” series, an alien…

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Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Casey Dorman Newsletter, Casey Dorman's Writer's Blog/Fan Page, consciousness, Opinion, Science Fiction Filed under: AI

The Real Danger of Artificial Intelligence. Why the Experts Have it Wrong.

February 28, 2023 caseydorman 1 Comment

In a recent blog, titled, “Planning for AGI and Beyond,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT-3,…

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Social Media Shouldn’t be Given a Free Pass on Liability Issues

February 21, 2023 caseydorman

The Internet, particularly in the case of social media sites, has become a danger to modern civilization. That’s an alarming…

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Posted in: Casey Dorman Newsletter, Casey Dorman's Writer's Blog/Fan Page, Opinion, Uncategorized

What is it Like to be a Plant?

February 3, 2023 caseydorman

What is it like to be a plant? Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence By Paco Calvo with…

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A Few Bad apples or a Blighted Orchard? Why the Murder of Tyre Nichols Represents a Dysfunctional Police Culture

January 30, 2023 caseydorman 1 Comment

You know me as a writer, but some issues are bigger than anyone’s personal writing career. You may not like…

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A Science Fiction Series that Deep-Thinking Readers Cannot Afford to Miss

January 29, 2023 caseydorman

Voyages of the Delphi, published by NewLink Publishing, a division of Mystic Publishers When I was in a graduate student,…

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The Genius in Your Garden

January 15, 2023 caseydorman

Review of The Revolutionary Genius of Plants by Stefano Mancuso. Atria Books, New York: 2017 A headline from the Washington…

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Why Do I Write?

January 10, 2023 caseydorman

I’m always writing a book. Well, not writing, actually, but working on a book anyway. Right now, I’m doing research…

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Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Casey Dorman Newsletter, Casey Dorman's Writer's Blog/Fan Page, consciousness, Science Fiction, Uncategorized

Can an AI Work as Well as a Human Brain?

January 2, 2023 caseydorman

The debate about whether or not artificial intelligence can achieve a level comparable to human intelligence is one that is…

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