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The ancient and imperial China, rulers were legitimized by an ideology of the Mandate of Heaven – the idea that heaven selects a rightful virtuous ruler. Capable and benevolent rulers…
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Discussions around AGI and technological progress often hinge upon near-term policy decisions. Okay, so we want this or that near-term decision on governance. More privacy. Less regulation. Whatever. But all…
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In my discussions around posthumanism and AGI, I’ve noticed something curious: Almost all discussions in the intergovernmental world, tech media, and social media center around specific policy decisions – not…
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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…
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In 1985, Microsoft was an underdog “good guy” – standing against big evil corps like IBM. In 2003, Google was an underdog “good guy” in a world of big evil…
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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…
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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….
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We assume that the tech founders who are building artificial general intelligence (AGI) care about safety. The firms closest to creating AGI sure to talk about it a lot. If…
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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…
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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,…
