The Cosmic Greater Good
When someone claims that they or someone else is “acting for greater good,” this colloquially means that this person is acting in a way that helps others, not only themselves….
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When someone claims that they or someone else is “acting for greater good,” this colloquially means that this person is acting in a way that helps others, not only themselves….
Enough “What’s your p(Doom)?” How about asking: “What’s your p(Bloom)?” Asking someone for their “p(bloom)” means asking them: “What is the likelihood that AGI will cause all sentient and autopoietic…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We assume that the tech founders who are building artificial general intelligence (AGI) care about safety. The firms closest to creating AGI are sure to talk about it a lot….
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…