Scoffing at AGI isn’t Intellectually Honest Anymore
In 2025, it is no longer intellectually honest to completely shun the idea of artificial general intelligence (AGI) or AGI risk. Yet still, in Dec 2024 (the time of this…
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In 2025, it is no longer intellectually honest to completely shun the idea of artificial general intelligence (AGI) or AGI risk. Yet still, in Dec 2024 (the time of this…
AI alignment typically implies anthropocentric goals: “Ensuring that AGI, no matter how powerful, will serve the interests and intentions of humans, remaining always under our control.” – or – “Ensuring…
Assuming AGI is achievable (and many, many of its former detractors believe it is) – what should be its purpose? I argue that the great (and ultimately, only) moral aim…
A Piping Plover can be defined as: Any human being who (a) overtly refuses any kind of brain augmentation or cognitive enhancement, and (b) believes that brain-augmented transhumans or AGIs…
The hyper-customized AI-generated sexual partners are coming. It’ll start with generative pornography. First in images, then in video, then with robust AI-generated personalities that are customized to their user. The…
This essay draws upon a longer and more business-related article on Emerj.com titled Ambitious AI, which may be of interest for readers who want to go deeper on this topic….
Today, Fulfilling Our Reward Circuits is “Hit or Miss”: Our daily lives are an amble from one reward circuit to the next (from hunger, to boredom, etc), what we constantly…
How should we influence the “values” or “ethics” or “morality” of a future AGI? I’m not sure this kind of direction setting is possible, and it may be entirely futile,…
I’m writing to you as a friend. Beliefs about the future are limiting your potential, and they’re working against your future wellbeing and power. I don’t want that for you….
The hypothesis of the Ambition Singularity: At some point in the 21st century, over 90% of the most ambitious persons on Earth will be working directly or indirectly to either…