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There is No Love After the Singularity

There is No Love After the Singularity

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...
State of Nature, or Solidarity? The Birth of Artificial General Intelligence

State of Nature, or Solidarity? The Birth of Artificial General Intelligence

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...
Where Should Humanity Steer Sentience? Examining 8 Potential Directions

Where Should Humanity Steer Sentience? Examining 8 Potential Directions

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...
Cognitively Enhanced Humans Will be More Valuable Than Unenhanced Humans – and We Need to Talk About it

Cognitively Enhanced Humans Will be More Valuable Than Unenhanced Humans – and We Need to Talk About it

by Dan | Oct 12, 2019 | Managing the Transhuman Transition, The Good Must Be Explored

[If that title comes across as shocking or offensive, bear with me. Before you make assumptions about my opinions on post-human morality and moral stratification, please read the article.] I was recently reading an article by Nayef Al-Rodhan called The Sustainable...
The Screaming Shame of Science – We Don’t Understand Consciousness

The Screaming Shame of Science – We Don’t Understand Consciousness

by Dan | Aug 17, 2019 | Consciousness is What Counts

Straight up: The screaming shame of modern science is our lack of understanding of consciousness itself. It is things that are conscious that hold moral weight. A coffee mug or a granite stone or an iPhone are unlikely to have an “internal movie” (qualia)...
The Bumpy Road to Post-Human Experience – Simulation Series Interview 2019

The Bumpy Road to Post-Human Experience – Simulation Series Interview 2019

by Dan | Jul 24, 2019 | Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Morality as Arbitrary and Contextual

This week my second interview on Simulation Series is live. If you aren’t familiar with Allen Saakyan’s Simulation Series video series, I recommend checking out his YouTube playlists page. Allen and I touched on a lot of ideas in this conversation, and I...
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