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Identity is an incredibly strong force in the human psyche, and it manifests itself in all kinds of social sciences contexts: Determining what actions are “best” for us (or our…
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AGI risk seems lower than it is because the people who know that AGI risk exists are almost all incentivized against talking about it openly. Broadly, there are two groups…
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Some AI thinkers and funders believe that any governance is a net negative for innovation, and signals dictatorship or oligarchy. Arguments for this position include: In this article I’ll argue…
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If life is a flame that we presume to have started some 2.5B years ago, with a feeble simmering in some volcanic pool somewhere, then we might think about all…
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Much of the current AGI dialogue takes place under the umbrella of an unquestioned anthropocentric perspective. We can often take for granted that: The purpose of this very brief article…
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Discussions around AGI and technological progress often hinge upon near-term policy decisions. Okay, so we want this or that near-term decision on governance. More privacy. Less regulation. Whatever. But all…
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We assume that the tech founders who are building artificial general intelligence (AGI) care about safety. The firms closest to creating AGI sure to talk about it a lot. If…
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Not that long ago I posted an article titled: Arguments Against Friendly AI and Inevitable Machine Benevolence, and it resulted in an interesting dialogue with Ben Goertzel (his comments, and…
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The year is 20,000,000 BC. In a jungle somewhere in Pangaea, a green clearing on the side of a great sloping mountain is made entirely brown. Not by mud or…
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What matters more, happiness, or suffering? For almost all of us – utilitarians or not – both positive and negative qualia matter, and register when we make decisions about our…