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There is a perverse belief that humans “deserve” to be free from work. The ideal future painted by proponents of this belief is one where human happiness alone is the…
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Many of my favorite quotes of Ralph Waldo Emerson seem to point to an important overarching idea, which I might summarize this way: We (humanity) exist as an arbitrary point…
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Some lines from Keats: Linger awhile upon some bending planks That lean against a streamlet’s rushy banks, And watch intently Nature’s gentle doings: They will be found softer than ring-dove’s…
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The transition from biological to non-biological will come in phases, and it will be driven by our own human drives. I’ve written about this at length back in 2014 in…
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Definition: The ‘transhuman transition’ describes the means and phases of change from the current state of homo sapiens (the human condition as we know it in 2019), to drastically altered…
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Last week I posted an annotated version of my interview on Allan Saakyan’s Simulation Series show. Directly after the video went live I got personal messages (in some cases from…
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The AI value alignment argument goes something like this: As artificial intelligence will continue to approach human-level intelligence Artificial intelligence will generally be driven by a reward function, by a…
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Human are being pulled into increasingly personalized virtual worlds (see: Lotus Eaters and World Eaters), making the physical computational substrate which houses these programmatic human experiences to be the most…
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Human nature has always been to gain control over the physical world — both in maximizing its output for our benefit (farming, mining, etc), and in lessening the risks it…
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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…