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The Council of the Apes

The Council of the Apes

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,...
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...
AGI and Suffering – Potential Responses to the Violence of Nature

AGI and Suffering – Potential Responses to the Violence of Nature

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...
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...
The Most Important Questions That AGI Might Help Us Explore

The Most Important Questions That AGI Might Help Us Explore

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...
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