by Dan | Sep 4, 2023 | Discerning the Good Itself, The Good Must Be Explored
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 to what end? What is the “end game” or the “point” of our...
by Dan | Mar 25, 2023 | AI Policy and Governance, Amoral Solipsism
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...
by Dan | May 8, 2021 | Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, The Good Must Be Explored
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 dirt, but by the presence of thousands of apes. Some small, some large. Some with long legs, some with stocky,...
by Dan | Jun 13, 2020 | Morality as Arbitrary and Contextual
I have heard it argued that post-human intelligence will be “loving”, or will inevitably express love to other intelligences – humans an animals included. In this essay, I aim to lay out an argument for why the singularity or post-human transition...
by Dan | May 4, 2020 | Amoral Solipsism, Exploring the End Game
The advancement of the sciences will, at some point in the decades of centuries ahead, lead humanity to a place where we can expand our cognition and sentience, and potentially build artificial general intelligences vastly beyond our own. Exactly how that transition...
by Dan | Jan 25, 2020 | Exploring the End Game, The Good Must Be Explored
Ask a politician, businessperson, or friendly neighbor what their hopes are for the future and the odds are, they’ll tell you they hope that the world is a better place. Maybe they mean an end to hunger, or better education for all, or more religious freedom (or...
