Setting a Direction for AGI Ethics
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,…
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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,…
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…
What matters more, happiness, or suffering? For almost all of us – utilitarians or not – both positive and negative qualia matter, and register when we make decisions about our…