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  • Artificial Intelligence Job Loss is a Comparatively Minor Concern
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    Artificial Intelligence Job Loss is a Comparatively Minor Concern

    ByDan

    How can you keep artificial intelligence from taking over your job? In my latest TEDx talk, I explore what I’ve learned (from hundreds of interviews) about job security in the…

  • What Black Mirror’s San Junipero Got Right and Wrong
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    What Black Mirror’s San Junipero Got Right and Wrong

    ByDan

    I’ve been cajoled into watching Netflix’s Black Mirror, and a friend of mine recommended watching the San Junipero episode next. As I mentioned in my last Black Morror reflection, and I…

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    With VR and Neurotech, the Future of Sex May Be Just as Disturbing as the Present

    ByDan

    I don’t watch fiction, and I don’t read fiction, almost as a rule. While I respect it as a medium, and consider it valuable in fleshing out future scenarios that…

  • Tinkering with Consciousness – The Great Ethical Precipice We Face
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    Tinkering with Consciousness – The Great Ethical Precipice We Face

    ByDan

    In the coming decades ahead, we’ll likely augment our minds and explore not only a different kind of “human experience”, we’ll likely explore the further reaches of sentience and intelligence…

  • The Epitome of Freedom – The Only Viable Post-Human Future for Human Consciousness?
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    The Epitome of Freedom – The Only Viable Post-Human Future for Human Consciousness?

    ByDan

    I am still of the belief that two of the most important conversations we can have with regards to the future of humanity and of sentient life in general are…

  • Cognitive Enhancement Will Yield Conflict – VR or Mind Uploading a Necessary Transition
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    Cognitive Enhancement Will Yield Conflict – VR or Mind Uploading a Necessary Transition

    ByDan

    Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near peaked my interest when he posited his reasoning for why there is likely no intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. By a mere matter of…

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    Dr. Robin Hanson – On the Difficulty of Making Progress Towards Beneficial Future

    ByDan

    Last week, I was fortunate enough to catch up with George Mason University Professor, Doctor Robin Hanson, one of the bloggers I admire most in the realm of intelligence and…