I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

A picture is worth a thousand words...and uses up a thousand times the memory.

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.

Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that!

If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you get here - we'll leave the lights on'? Probably not - but this is more or less what is happening with AI.

It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.