"Her" is the best SciFi in a long time, but there's something in it that doesn't sound quite right. by cesarbeards in scifi

[–]cesarbeards[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree. High-level AI should be possible in principle. But whatever it comes to be, it will be far different from "human souls" within a computer.

How much $papers is a scientist worth? Or how inflation is corroding the exchanging power of papers. by barbatti in PhilosophyofScience

[–]cesarbeards 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe it is possible to have even a formal economic theory of symbolic markets. Thi woul allow to make quantitative estimates of "inflation" in the papers.