by Dan | Sep 16, 2018 | Glossary, Morality as Arbitrary and Contextual
Alexander the Great had enough time in his 32 years to accomplish many objectives. Defeating the Persian empire, conquering the Hellenic world and large swaths of India, and so on. Succession planning, as it turns out, hadn’t been much a priority for the...
by Dan | Aug 27, 2018 | Glossary, The Good Must Be Explored
“The Wisest Cricket” is a term used in jest (and absurdism) to refer to the human attempt to understand the universe and their place in it. The term is intended to refer to the absurdity of thinking that humans can ever acquire wisdom or genuine, complete...
by Dan | Aug 20, 2018 | Consciousness is What Counts, Discerning the Good Itself
The universe doesn’t seem to be inherently imbued with meaning, but it would seem that anything we could do to find said meaning, to make our time here “worthwhile”, would fall into one of two broad categories. I argue that the creation of artificial...
by Dan | Aug 14, 2018 | Consciousness is What Counts, Improving Sentient Experience, The Good Must Be Explored
Both artificial intelligence and nuclear warheads could both wipe out human life, though it might be possible for superintelligent AI to be even more destructive. That being said, AI is more than an “existential risk.” It’s also a potential...
by Dan | Jul 26, 2018 | Creating or Enhancing Consciousness, Reflecting on What I've Read, The Good Must Be Explored
Many months ago, Peter Voss came through San Francisco and we sat down for a coffee at my favorite place in Hayes Valley, Arlequin. We chatted a bit of business first. Peter runs Aigo.ai, and his work on natural language is a lot of fun to discuss. Similarly, we...
by Dan | Jul 21, 2018 | Consciousness is What Counts, Reflecting on What I've Read
I spoke recently at a United Nations and INTERPOL event in Singapore, on the topic of artificial intelligence use-cases in law enforcement. One of the only other Americans at the event – and a fellow speaker – was Thomas Campbell. Thomas spent many years...
