Michael Shermer

Eliezer Yudkovski described how an AI apocalypse could happen. In a 2008 article he wrote: "How likely is it that artificial intelligence will cross the entire wide gap from amoeba to village fool, and then stop at the level of human genius?" And his answer: "From a physical point of view, it will be possible to build a brain that can calculate a million times faster than a human brain... If we accelerate a human brain in this way, a subjective year of thought will shrink to 31 physical seconds in the external world, and a thousand years will pass in eight and a half hours." Illustration: pixabay.

Does artificial intelligence endanger humanity?

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Cryogenics. Illustration: shutterstock

The afterlife of the atheists or whether the brain can be preserved after death

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Climate change denial. Illustration: shutterstock

The voice of the skeptic - to forge the doubt / Michael Shermer

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US President Barack Obama, photo from December 2014. Photo: Mykhaylo Palinchak / Shutterstock.com

The voice of the skeptic - a conspiracy for the masses / Michael Shermer

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probability. Illustration: shutterstock

The voice of the skeptic - surviving the statistics / Michael Shermer

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The cover of the book "The Secret Race"

The voice of the skeptic - about tyrants and conservatives

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Nuclear waste in northern Australia

The voice of the skeptic - the left's war on science / Michael Shermer

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Excerpt from the BBC's reconstruction of the Stanford Prison Experiment

The voice of the skeptic - shock and awe / Michael Shermer

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Smoke billows over the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. Photo: US National Park Service. From Wikipedia

The voice of the skeptic - contradictory conspiracies

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Brain scan of an Alzheimer's patient. Decreased function of many areas of the brain. Photo: from Wikipedia

The voice of the skeptic - the soul of Aunt Millie / Michael Shermer - a weekend of skepticism

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Creationist museum in the USA - shows humans and dinosaurs walking together on the earth before Noah's flood

The voice of the skeptic - what is pseudo-science? / Michael Shermer

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Flat Earth Society logo. From Wikipedia

The voice of the skeptic - globalization / Michael Shermer

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The supply and demand curve. From Wikipedia

The voice of the skeptic - financial nonsense / Michael Shermer

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German poster from 1935 showing a Jewish conspiracy with the Freemasons for world domination

The voice of the skeptic - the conspiracy detector / Michael Shermer

The Knesset House - the center of Israeli democracy

The voice of the skeptic - The Democracy Lab

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The man from Piltdown - one of the most famous forgeries in science of the beginning of the 20th century

When scientists sin

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Survive Death with Larry King Live

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The optimist looks at the world through rose-colored glasses

Raspberry juice psychology

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Smoke billows over the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. Photo: US National Park Service. From Wikipedia

The paranoia runs deep

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

If I don't have an agent, who do I have? Why do people believe that invisible agents rule the world?

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Patterns

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Invoice literacy in the Middle East

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