Most Aliens May Be Artificial Intelligence, Not Life as We Know It
Scientific American Blog: Observations,
Human intelligence may be just a brief phase before machines take over. That may answer where the aliens are hiding
Exoplanets and the Fermi Paradox
Evolution News & Views,
We are living during a golden age of discovery in astronomy. Arguably, it began with the dawning of the space age in 1957. By…
Speculations on Habitable Zone Waterworlds
Centauri Dreams,
What to make of Fergus Simpson’s new paper on waterworlds, suggesting that most habitable zone planets are of this type? If…
Key Assumptions of the Transcension Hypothesis: Do Advanced Civilizations Leave Our Universe?
Ever Smarter World,
This post is about a paper of mine on three big topics: the Fermi paradox, accelerating change, and astrosociology (the nature…