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Exploration Post-Human Consciousness States – The Value of Psychedelics
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Exploration Post-Human Consciousness States – The Value of Psychedelics

Nick Bostrom’s 2007 TED presentation (titled: Humanity’s biggest problems aren’t what you think they are) involved an illustration that I liked so much that I modeled it – and credited Bostrom…

The Most Important Questions That AGI Might Help Us Explore
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The Most Important Questions That AGI Might Help Us Explore

What matters most? If we have a reasonable chance of building conscious AI and/or post-human intelligence in the next 60 years, it makes sense for us to consider where we’re…

Super-intelligent Machines May be Conscious, but Not Like We Are
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Super-intelligent Machines May be Conscious, but Not Like We Are

During my most recent UN speaking engagement in Shanghai, I wasn’t able to access Google (or my email), and was left with only a few books and the tabs I…

The Wisest Cricket
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The Wisest Cricket

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.15″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] “The Wisest Cricket” is a term used in jest (and absurdism) to refer to the human…

Artificial General Intelligence – Finding the Good is Better Than Doing Good
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Artificial General Intelligence – Finding the Good is Better Than Doing Good

The universe doesn’t seem to be inherently imbued with meaning, but it would seem that anything we could do to find said meaning, to make our time here “worthwhile”, would fall…

Is Artificial Intelligence Worse Than Nukes? Maybe – but it May Be Better, Too
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Is Artificial Intelligence Worse Than Nukes? Maybe – but it May Be Better, Too

Both artificial intelligence and nuclear warheads could both wipe out human life, though it might be possible for superintelligent AI to be even more destructive. That being said, AI is…