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meta-
adj.,pref. [from analytic philosophy] One level of description up. A metasyntactic variable is a variable in notation used to describe syntax, and meta-language is language used to describe language. This is difficult to explain briefly, but much hacker humor turns on deliberate confusion between meta-levels.
-valent
suff. Having a specified valence or valences.
valence
1. Chemistry. The combining capacity of an atom or radical, determined by the number of electrons that it will lose, add, or share when it reacts with other atoms.
2. The ability of a substance to interact with another or to produce an effect.
3. Psychology. The degree of attraction or aversion that an individual feels toward a specific object or event.
4. Linguistics. The number of arguments that a lexical item, especially a verb, can combine with to make a syntactically well-formed sentence, often along with a description of the categories of those constituents.
5. The capacity of something to unite, react, or interact with something else.
an extropic state
of contemplating supersymmetric psychosocial symphonies of
human suffering, surmounting, senescence, and survival through
an incomprehensibly vast and escalating expansion of the extropian multiverse. speculative spelunking through assymetric archipelagos of mechapsychogenetic transhuman permutation, pain and poise, pretense and probity, prevarication and promise.-
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The Consciousness Cop-out
It’s far from the first time he’s explained this perspective, but during today’s 3rd Annual Terasem Colloquium on the Law of Transbeman Persons, the immortal Marvin Minsky reiterated the position that the term consciousness is really a cop-out. I was … Continue reading →
Gravity Probe B Update
Very Exciting! We attended the previous public presentation in April when Professor Francis Everitt, a very approachable Stanford University physicist and principal investigator of the Gravity Probe B (GP-B) Relativity Mission and his team, “shared what they have found so … Continue reading →
I Never Thought Turning 80 Would Be So Much Fun!
Caption Reads: I Never Thought Turning 80 Would Be So Much Fun! This is a scanned-in card from a local gift shop. Go ahead and laugh today, but when the gift card industry is stocking the shelves with “happy 90th … Continue reading →
A DNA Lifeboat
It never really did make sense to me that EVERY ANIMAL IN CREATION could be crammed onto a boat. Of course, with magic and mysticism, even the utterly absurd becomes obvious in the believer’s mind. It’s a tragically overvalent meme, … Continue reading →
NPR’s Singularity Soundbyte for the Masses
Weekend Edition Sunday, December 2, 2007 The idea of what Artificial Intelligence should be has evolved over the past 50 years — from solving puzzles and playing chess to emulating the abilities of a child: walking, recognizing objects. A recent … Continue reading →
How to GTH OTFR
That would be Get the Heck Off This Freaking Rock; a fundamentally complementary enterprise to accomplishing posthuman cluefulness. In fact, these companies could well be building Noah’s REAL Ark when the fundies blow themselves to smithereens in the most perverse … Continue reading →
How to Sell Youngevity, Longevity, and hopefully a little Levity
With great thanks to our ever-vigilant uber-libertarian loyalist Ronald Bailey, I’ve been catching up on Transvision 2007 from this run down rented shanty here in central Palo Alto. It’s definitely a bonus to live within a 120 second walk to … Continue reading →
Biological Nanobatteries
Engadget: NASA researchers working on biological nanobattery. The idea is to make use of the iron-containing protein ferritin, which apparently has the innate ability to carry either a positive or negative charge. In practice, one layer of ferritin would simply … Continue reading →
Dr. J’s “Human Racism” out of the gate earlier than expected?
After all, we can’t have those augmented semi-humans showing us up now, can we? Powered by ScribeFire.
Half the time, we’re just Falling Forward
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Gravitational Lens reveals a Far Out Universe, Dink
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Modern cavemen may find the cure
Okay, so this is six weeks stale, but it’s still cool, even if sooo long out dated by now. A high-res ’4D’ vision of the human body “No, really dude, it’s SCIENCE, not just bitchin’ psychedelic yoga practice, I promise, … Continue reading →
Air Muscles
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