{"id":36573,"date":"2011-01-18T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T08:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=9198"},"modified":"2011-01-23T18:13:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T02:13:02","slug":"around-the-web-%e2%80%93-january-18th-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/18\/around-the-web-%e2%80%93-january-18th-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Web \u2013 January 18th, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acceleratingfuture.com\/michael\/blog\/2011\/01\/yes-the-singularity-is-the-biggest-threat-to-humanity\/\">Yes, The Singularity is the Biggest Threat to Humanity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.replicatedtypo.com\/science\/imitation-and-social-cognition-in-humans-and-chimpanzees-i-imitation-overimitation-and-conformity\/3112\/\">Imitation and Social Cognition in Humans and Chimpanzees (I): Imitation, Overimitation, and Conformity<\/a>. Doesn&#8217;t fall into the trap of either\/or, where chimpanzees are qualitatively different from humans in too stark of a manner, or simply quantitatively different in an implausible fashion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timothyblee.com\/2011\/01\/13\/emulation-simulation-and-the-human-brain\/\">Emulation, Simulation, and the Human Brain<\/a>. Tim B Lee is skeptical of whole brain emulation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/17\/borderless-economy-jobless-prosperity\/?ref=business\">Borderless Economy, Jobless Prosperity<\/a>. The real issue is whether the nation-state matters in any deep way as anything more than an organizational convenience and semantic convention. I would say it does. Many globalists would disagree.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/18\/the-chicken-the-egg-the-media-and-sarah-palin\/\">The Chicken, The Egg, The Media and Sarah Palin<\/a>. Sarah Palin is magnetic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2281452\/\">Buying Blind: Steve Jobs isn&#8217;t saying why he&#8217;s taking a medical leave. Is that fair to Apple investors?<\/a> Looks like there&#8217;s a lot of squishiness about what does, and doesn&#8217;t, need to be disclosed. But if Apple is so dependent on its CEO&#8217;s vision, is it really a good long term hold?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/17\/world\/middleeast\/17iran.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Politically Confident, Iran Cuts Subsidies on Prices<\/a>. Incentives matter:<i> \u201cI used to be the kind of person to have all the lights on because I liked the house to be very bright,\u201d says &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/82jTlprDk7g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, The Singularity is the Biggest Threat to Humanity.<br \/>\nImitation and Social Cognition in Humans and Chimpanzees (I): Imitation, Overimitation, and Conformity. Doesn&#8217;t fall into the trap of either\/or, where chimpanzees are qualitatively different&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,246,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-daily-data-dump","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36573"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36770,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36573\/revisions\/36770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}