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Location:: San Francisco, CA

About Me:: http://www.singinst.org
http://www.lifeboat.com
http://www.crnano.org
http://www.nickbostrom.com
http://www.e-drexler.com

Website:: http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog

Areas of interest:: superintelligence

Associations/Affiliations:: Fundraising Director, Lifeboat Foundation

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On Sunday I was interviewed by cyberculture icon RU Sirius, in his San Francisco studio! It was for his Neofiles show, not the RU Sirius show proper, but the above image was just too good not to use. One more interview coming soon!

Small correction here: I am not the spokesperson for the Lifeboat Foundation, just the fundraising director.…

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Posted on April 29th, 2007 at 11:00am —

Robert Freitas Interview

Here's an interview I conducted recently with Robert A. Freitas Jr., nanomedicine pioneer, on behalf of the Lifeboat Foundation.

Posted on April 22nd, 2007 at 11:00am —

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At 1:02pm on June 9th, 2007, David Pearce said…: Hi Michael
I've just listened to your RU Sirius interview.....and I was completely bowled over. Absolutely superb. Please do more interviews.....
greetings from sunny Brighton
Dave

At 8:58am on April 8th, 2007, Christopher said…: Hi, Michael
I'd like to display the feed from acceleratingfuture.com on the front page. Would this be alright with you?

At 7:37pm on April 6th, 2007, cfp said…: Its a small metaverse.

At 3:48am on April 3rd, 2007, Safety Neal said…: I browsed Creating Friendly AI, quite a bit to consider there.
In a society composed of humans with entirely unbiased beliefs, someone with a mutation that led to this class of honest mistake in self-estimation would have an evolutionary advantage. An evolutionary selection pressure favors adaptations which not only impel us to seek power and status, but which impel us to (honestly!) believe that we are seeking power and status for altruistic reasons.
Because human evolution includes an eternal arms race between liars and lie-detectors, many social contexts create a selection pressure in favor of making honest mistakes that happen to promote personal fitness.|Section 2.3|
This sounds like a description of the Bush Administration to me with its heady mix of arrogance and profound incompetence.