by Dan | Dec 30, 2018 | Amoral Solipsism, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Reflecting on What I've Read
During my most recent UN speaking engagement in Shanghai, I wasn’t able to access Google (or my email), and was left with only a few books and the tabs I had open. One of those tabs was a blog post from Andres Gomez Emilsson, which I’m glad I had opened...
by Dan | Aug 25, 2018 | AI Policy and Governance, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Managing the Transhuman Transition
“Political singularity” is a hypothetical event where global and national politics centers almost exclusively on issues related to post-human intelligence and power. Most of the attention will likely center around a single set of related questions: Will we...
by Dan | May 28, 2018 | Controlling Intelligent Substrate, Creating or Enhancing Consciousness, Digitized and Digested, Exploring the End Game, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Managing the Transhuman Transition, Transhuman Transition
Human nature has always been to gain control over the physical world — both in maximizing its output for our benefit (farming, mining, etc), and in lessening the risks it poses to human life and wellbeing (medicine, construction, etc). This same drive for control...
by Dan | May 1, 2018 | Consciousness is What Counts, Discerning the Good Itself, Exploring the End Game, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, The Good Must Be Explored, Transhuman Transition
How can you keep artificial intelligence from taking over your job? In my latest TEDx talk, I explore what I’ve learned (from hundreds of interviews) about job security in the era of AI – but I also lay out why I think that “job loss” is a somewhat trivial...
by Dan | Mar 16, 2018 | Analysis of Film and Media, Consciousness is What Counts, Controlling Intelligent Substrate, Exploring the End Game, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Managing the Transhuman Transition, Transhuman Transition
I’ve been cajoled into watching Netflix’s Black Mirror, and a friend of mine recommended watching the San Junipero episode next. As I mentioned in my last Black Morror reflection, and I didn’t plan on watching anything that wasn’t worth 40...
by Dan | Jan 14, 2018 | Analysis of Film and Media, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Morality as Arbitrary and Contextual
I don’t watch fiction, and I don’t read fiction, almost as a rule. While I respect it as a medium, and consider it valuable in fleshing out future scenarios that humanity should consider (which David Brin referred to as “finding quicksand” in...
