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The Death of Sardanapalus and the Birth of AGI

The Death of Sardanapalus and the Birth of AGI

by Dan | Jan 9, 2023 | Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration

We assume that the tech founders who are building artificial general intelligence (AGI) care about safety. The firms closest to creating AGI sure to talk about it a lot. If not for the safety of others, certainly for their employees. Even if they were recklessly...
Why AI Will or Will Not Treat Humanity Well – A Conversation with Zarathustra Goertzel

Why AI Will or Will Not Treat Humanity Well – A Conversation with Zarathustra Goertzel

by Dan | Dec 4, 2021 | Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Reflecting on What I've Read

Not that long ago I posted an article titled: Arguments Against Friendly AI and Inevitable Machine Benevolence, and it resulted in an interesting dialogue with Ben Goertzel (his comments, and mine, are included at the bottom of the article). This past week I posted on...
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,...
Preventing Suffering After Mind Uploading – A Commentary on Yampolskiy and Ziesche

Preventing Suffering After Mind Uploading – A Commentary on Yampolskiy and Ziesche

by Dan | Nov 3, 2019 | Discerning the Good Itself, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Reflecting on What I've Read

If mind uploading becomes possible, how can we prevent uploaded minds from suffering? While uploaded minds might be able to experience a hyper-intense range of super-bliss, it is obviously possible that the opposite could also happen under the wrong conditions (or...
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, Neurotech, and Human Irrelevance – A Three-Part Thought Experiment

AI, Neurotech, and Human Irrelevance – A Three-Part Thought Experiment

by Dan | Jul 1, 2019 | Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Managing the Transhuman Transition

I believe that it’s important to question the human-centric view of the future. In many parts of the world, humans are increasingly aware of their impact on future generations, on other animal species, and on the natural ecosystem that supports all life. Still, when...
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