Categoría: Opinion
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Sobre la (im)posibilidad de construir inteligencias artificiales generales
Hace unos días, mientras grabábamos un podcast sobre la ciencia y la tecnología de Avatar 2, surgió un debate al respecto de la transferencia de la consciencia de un ser humano. En la película, el ejército recopila todos los recuerdos de un soldado y los almacena en un soporte digital a modo de «copia de…
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¿El fin de las revoluciones científicas?
Esta semana he visto un artículo muy interesante en la web de Nature sobre lo supuestamente poco revolucionaria que es la investigación científica actual. Todo viene a cuento de un estudio realizado por un grupo de investigadores de la universidad de Minnesota, que se preguntaron si la ciencia actual es más disruptiva que en épocas…
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2022 in review: a bit of everything
As 2022 comes to a close, I like to reflect on the things I enjoyed during the year. I try to focus on things that were released in the past 12 months, but some categories, such as books, are very difficult to summarize in this way. In the end, I decided to include things that…
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Cult of the Lamb – Análisis
Fecha de salida: 11 de Agosto, 2022Género: Fusión de Roguelike y GestiónVersión jugada: 1.0.8Duración: ~15 horas (dificultad jugada: difícil) Durante la última década, muchos estudios independientes han explorado todos y cada uno de los rincones de un selecto grupo de géneros. Por ejemplo, desde que Derek Yu publicó Spelunky, los aficionados a los roguelikes hemos…
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Bioshock’s development hell, buy Apple or die, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2022#01)
First recap of the year. Just came back from holidays, so it will be a short one. Let’s get to it: Arcane was a hit, so now we are going to see a bazillion video game tv shows Basically the header. Arcane, based on League of Legends, was a mega hit on Netflix by the…
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2021 in review: games, books, music, series, films…
Year is almost over, and I want to write a brief recap of some cool things I’ve enjoyed in 2021, in no particular order (but with a «best of the year» in each category, marked in blue): Video games Monster Hunter: Rise This was the first Monster Hunter I played since the PSP era, and…
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Mistborn videogame? Asimov’s genius, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#44)
Writing this from the airport, on my way back home to spend a few days with the gang! Busy week, but with cool stuff to share. Let’s start: October’s best science images from Nature Another month, another astonishing compilation of science-related pictures. While I have been following the news from La Palma, I did not…
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Human history, the metaverse, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#43)
Autumn is here (gonna miss the sun for a while now…), but there is a lot of interesting stuff to read while indoors. Let’s start: How did we get stuck? Really nice review about an upcoming book written by David Graeber and David Wengrow, about how societies came to be the way they are now.…