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Computer Simulation

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Video Games

Review: The Free Market Comes to The Sims 4

Even simulated entrepreneurs aren't free from the burdens of business registration fees.

Autumn Billings | 5.23.2025 6:30 AM

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Video Games

Dwarf Fortress, the Deepest, Most Insane Computer Simulation Game Ever, Just Got a Shiny New Makeover

The game is one of the greatest pieces of outsider art created in the 21st century, and it just got a lot easier to play.

C.J. Ciaramella | 12.8.2022 4:39 PM

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Artificial Intelligence

Amazing New Chinese A.I.-Powered Language Model Wu Dao 2.0 Unveiled

It's ten times more powerful than the current U.S. effort.

Ronald Bailey | 6.11.2021 4:06 PM

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Coronavirus

COVID-19 Modeling: How Many Coronavirus Deaths by the End of Summer?

Benchmarks for determining accuracy of projections are set.

Ronald Bailey | 5.1.2020 3:55 PM

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Robots

Ronald Bailey and Robin Hanson Talk Robot Overlords at Cato: Video

Hanson presents his new book, The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth. I discuss.

Ronald Bailey | 6.15.2016 10:03 AM

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Brain

Billions of Artificial Robot Brains Take Over the World: New at Reason

A review of The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth

Ronald Bailey | 6.3.2016 1:30 PM

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Artificial Intelligence

Computers as Oracles: True Answers We Won't Understand

DeepMind's AlphaGo may signal the advent of the age of computational thaumaturgy

Ronald Bailey | 1.27.2016 4:33 PM

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Obituaries

Artificial Intelligence Pioneer and Transhumanist Marvin Minsky Dies at Age 88

Until the time that Minsky is either revived or uploaded, may he rest in peace

Ronald Bailey | 1.26.2016 11:01 AM

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Science

Venezuela Bans GMOs, Utopia via the Borg Collective, and Cancer: Bad Luck or Environment?

A scitech research and policy roundup for January 6, 2016

Ronald Bailey | 1.6.2016 12:33 PM

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Temperature Trends

New Climate Model Simulations Project Global Warming At Rates Unprecedented For At Least the Past 1,000 Years by 2020

A falsifiable prediction finally - only five years away

Ronald Bailey | 3.9.2015 5:03 PM

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Politics

The Blockchain: A Supercomputer for Reality

"Everything that can be decentralized, will be decentralized."

Ronald Bailey | 3.6.2015 1:30 PM

Artificial Intelligence

Ronald Bailey Wonders If Artificial Intelligence Will Destroy Humanity

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 1:30 PM

Policy

Will Superintelligent Machines Destroy Humanity?

In a thoughtful new book, a philosopher ponders the potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence.

Ronald Bailey | 9.12.2014 1:30 PM

Media Criticism

Experts Fooled by Super Computer or Media Fooled by Bad Test?

Zenon Evans | 6.9.2014 4:32 PM

Artificial Intelligence

Ronald Bailey Wonders If Skynet Is Inevitable

Reason Staff | 1.3.2014 1:30 PM

Science & Technology

Is Skynet Inevitable?

Artificial intelligence and the possibility of human extinction

Ronald Bailey | 1.3.2014 1:30 PM

Policy

I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords

Ronald Bailey | 11.29.2012 9:45 AM

Politics

Why Are People "Irrationally" Generous to Strangers?

New research finds that nice guys tend to finish first.

Ronald Bailey | 7.26.2011 6:00 PM

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