by Dan | May 6, 2019 | Global Intelligent Tech Governance
Hugo de Garis is one of the first AGI thinkers that I came across in 2012, when I decided to focus my life on the post-human transition. Aside from Bostrom and Al-Rodhan, few thinkers molded my early ideas about AGI and transhumanism more than de Garis. I believe that...
by Dan | May 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
While Nick Bostrom’s book Superintelligence (and its promotion from the likes of Bill Gates and Elon Musk) put the topic of post-human intelligence on the map, there have been a variety of terms used to refer to post-human intelligence over the years – all...
by Dan | Apr 21, 2019 | AI Policy and Governance, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Managing the Transhuman Transition
In history, we are reminded that all is in flux. America is likened to Rome. China today is likened to the Tang Dynasty many centuries ago. Europe was pure barbarity, then Europe was the leader of technology and economic development. Empires and kingdoms rise –...
by Dan | Apr 14, 2019 | Amoral Solipsism, Exploring the End Game, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration
Rich in tradition and material wealth, Japan’s reclusive youths are often completely uninterested in sex, relationships, or work. The country’s youth – especially men – are seeking escape from the job and romance market. Video game addiction...
by Dan | Apr 4, 2019 | Reflecting on What I've Read
Pardon the esoteric-ness of this post. I’m afraid it’ll neither be humorous or relevant for those who haven’t read these thinkers, or for those who aren’t familiar with their work. David Pearce Ralph Waldo Emerson Michel de Montaigne Nayef...
by Dan | Mar 29, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence and Global Power, Controlling Intelligent Substrate, Managing the Transhuman Transition
During the Second Opium War, in 1860, a combined force of French and British troops trampled Old Summer Palace (known in Chinese as Yuanming Yuan 圆明园; 圓明園) on their way to Beijing. The relatively primitive military forces of the then Qing dynasty could do little to...
by Dan | Mar 11, 2019 | Exploring the End Game, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration
The human race has two critical questions to answer in the 21st century: 1. What is a beneficial transition beyond humanity? 2. How do we get there from here without destroying ourselves? These questions presuppose the following hypotheses: Humanity will likely...
by Dan | Mar 9, 2019 | Digitized and Digested
“Sugar cubes” – Refers to the tiny hypothetical form that human mind uploads might take when they are condensed and stored. These small cubes of computational substrate would likely contain more than our human senses, memories, and consciousness...
by Dan | Mar 8, 2019 | Controlling Intelligent Substrate, Morality as Arbitrary and Contextual, The Good Must Be Explored, Transhuman Transition
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 kind of abstract goal Any such goal could have...
by Dan | Mar 3, 2019 | Exploring the End Game, Managing the Transhuman Transition
Many renown technology pundits, entrepreneurs, and inventors have posited a similar vision of an artificial intelligence-enabled future: Artificial intelligence and other future technologies will amass tremendous wealth in the hands of a few powerful, dominant...
