http://cureservicegroup.org Zetetic Elench - Culture Unknowns Refuted Empirically Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:10:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A new TV series: "Invaders 2020!" is selecting cast members (including Kian Egan) It's basically a story about the Human Resistance to an alien invasion Industry sources have described the show as a pretty cheap ripoff - but at the  Cure Service Group, we have hopes that it could show promise.  The ... http://cureservicegroup.org/?p=4 In 1965, statisticianI. J. Good wrote: “ Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably ... http://cureservicegroup.org/?p=3 Welcome to the blog of the CURE Service Group of the Zetetic Elench - a fringe section of "The Culture", a series of stories (by Iain M Banks) about a space-dwelling civilization of humans, aliens and Minds. This blog wil coverthe themes of Artificial Intelligence, Post-humanism, space exploration and philosophy (the ... http://cureservicegroup.org/?p=1 This is a fan site - in appreciation of teh work of Iain (M) Banks and his eries of stories about "The Culture", a high-tech socialist/anarchist society http://cureservicegroup.org/?p=2