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  • Why AI Will or Will Not Treat Humanity Well – A Conversation with Zarathustra Goertzel
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    Why AI Will or Will Not Treat Humanity Well – A Conversation with Zarathustra Goertzel

    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…

  • Preventing Suffering After Mind Uploading – A Commentary on Yampolskiy and Ziesche
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    Preventing Suffering After Mind Uploading – A Commentary on Yampolskiy and Ziesche

    If mind uploading becomes possible, how can we prevent uploaded minds from suffering? While uploaded minds might be able to experience a hyper-intense range of super-bliss, it is obviously possible…

  • The Most Important Questions That AGI Might Help Us Explore
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    The Most Important Questions That AGI Might Help Us Explore

    What matters most? If we have a reasonable chance of building conscious AI and/or post-human intelligence in the next 60 years, it makes sense for us to consider where we’re…

  • Super-intelligent Machines May be Conscious, but Not Like We Are
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    Super-intelligent Machines May be Conscious, but Not Like We Are

    During my most recent UN speaking engagement in Shanghai, I wasn’t able to access Google (or my email), and was left with only a few books and the tabs I…