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nsparrow | 8 years ago | on: The True American: On Henry David Thoreau

Robert Harrison, the author and professor at Stanford, also has a podcast, Entitled Opinions, that may be of interest to HN [1]. He recently did a fascinating episode on artificial intelligence & the singularity, approaching AI from a philosophical standpoint with a Stanford computer scientist [2].

[1]: https://entitledopinions.stanford.edu/

[2]: https://entitledopinions.stanford.edu/sam-ginn-singularity

nsparrow | 8 years ago | on: A Defense of the Reality of Time

If you are interested in an opposing viewpoint, the British physicist Julian Barbour has been trying to work out the math for a timeless physics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Barbour

He lays out his theory in his book, The End of Time.