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The real founder of Fight Club isn’t the crazy man who was beating himself up in the parking lot of a bar. The real founder of Fight Club is the crazy man who came out of that bar, saw a crazy man beating himself up in the parking lot, and the first question that came to his lips was “Can I be next?”

Kevin Kelly wrote an excellent article on the fundamental assumptions behind the myth of the superhuman AI, and why they’re either unsupported or contradicted by evidence. He does a good job on some points that I’ve thought through myself, and brings up some other points I hadn’t considered.

The Myth of a Superhuman AI

I had my dead Kenwood stereo replaced by a new Kenwood. The installation labor cost almost as much as the hardware. They kept telling me how cool the bluetooth integration with my phone would be, but my phone doesn’t have bluetooth and I don’t use my phone in the car anyway. They were disappointed but amused that I’m such a relic.

Spectacular Cosmographic Maps Chart Galaxies and Superclusters in Local Universe | Wired Science | Wired.com.

I’ve been searching for this kind of map for years. I’d forgotten about it after so many frustrating failures. This is a wonderfully guided tour of the local galactic structures and their observed motions. Did you think the galaxies were just sitting still out there? Expanding uniformly, like raisins in bread? Nope!