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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...
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...
AI Value Alignment isn’t a Problem if We Don’t Coexist

AI Value Alignment isn’t a Problem if We Don’t Coexist

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...
What is the “Meaning” of the Singularity

What is the “Meaning” of the Singularity

by Dan | Dec 23, 2018 | Discerning the Good Itself, Morality as Arbitrary and Contextual

What is the “meaning” of the Singularity? If we look forward to the potential trajectories of intelligence and sentience, we wonder: Where is the future taking us? What does the future “want”? Some people have posited theories about the meaning...
The Last Words of Alexander – and the Future of Artificial Intelligence

The Last Words of Alexander – and the Future of Artificial Intelligence

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...
Will More Intelligent Machines Be More Moral?

Will More Intelligent Machines Be More Moral?

by Dan | Jul 15, 2018 | Morality as Arbitrary and Contextual, Reflecting on What I've Read, The Good Must Be Explored

Many months ago, Peter Voss (who we’ve interviewed previously on the Emerj podcast) came through San Francisco and we sat down for a coffee at my favorite place in Hayes Valley, Arlequin Cafe. We chatted a bit of business first. Peter runs Aigo.ai, and his work...
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