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...
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...
by Dan | Jul 11, 2019 | Creating or Enhancing Consciousness, The Good Must Be Explored
The following quote is as good an introduction to this article as I could ask for: “…he saw in Java a plain far as the eye could reach entirely covered with skeletons, and took it for a battlefield; they were, however, merely the skeletons of large...
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...
by Dan | Jan 9, 2019 | Discerning the Good Itself, Reflecting on What I've Read, The Good Must Be Explored
What matters most? If we have a reasonable chance of building conscious AI and/or post-human intelligence in the next 60 years, it makes sense for us to consider where we’re headed. If we presume we have any control over our fate at all – where will we point 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...
