Closing the Human Reward Circuit
Today, satisfying our reward circuits is pretty “hit or miss.” Our daily lives are an amble from one reward circuit to the next (from hunger, to boredom, etc), what we…
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Today, satisfying our reward circuits is pretty “hit or miss.” Our daily lives are an amble from one reward circuit to the next (from hunger, to boredom, etc), what we…
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…
Total Recall is a 1990 Schwarzenegger blockbuster that, until yesterday, I had never seen. The movie centers around the story of a construction worker who is treated by a company…
Can we do better than the state of nature? Or, rather, can we do better than nature herself? When it comes to the trajectory of intelligence itself, some humans seem…
Defining the Term A utility-monster is Rober Nozak’s thought experiment about an entity who could be so happy as to outshine all possible happiness of all possible humans, and humans…
In the coming 20-30 years, I suspect we’ll enter a phase of the posthuman transition (what I refer to as “Phase 4“) where brain-machine interface technology (possibly in combination with…
The advancement of the sciences will, at some point in the decades of centuries ahead, lead humanity to a place where we can expand our cognition and sentience, and potentially…
As human beings we are propelled by our varied hopes, our lives are in many ways driven by them. On the day-to-day, we hope to make the sale, to avoid…