Piping Plovers

Piping Plovers

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 would (or should) treat humanity well due to the inherent and unique value of...
You Must Be an Idiot

You Must Be an Idiot

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 corps like Microsoft. In 2016, OpenAI was an underdog “good guy” in a...
Closing the Human Reward Circuit

Closing the Human Reward Circuit

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 desire is a change in our emotional state. Very frequently, the actions we take to...