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….
Many of my favorite quotes of Ralph Waldo Emerson seem to point to an important overarching idea: We exist as an arbitrary point in a grand scheme of intelligence and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I have a great respect for Bostrom, and genuinely believe him to be one of the most important thinkers alive today. I agree with a great many of his ideas,…
The year is 20,000,000 BC. In a jungle somewhere in Pangaea, a green clearing on the side of a great sloping mountain is made entirely brown. Not by mud or…