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Conflict, Fecundity and the Birth of Artificial General Intelligence

Conflict, Fecundity and the Birth of Artificial General Intelligence

by Dan | Dec 12, 2020 | Managing the Transhuman Transition

Can we do better than the state of nature? Or, rather, can we do better than nature herself? When it comes to the trajectory of intelligence itself, some humans seem to think that we can. From Goertzel’s ideas about decentralized artificial general intelligence...
The “Good Monster” – The Entity We Might Have to Build

The “Good Monster” – The Entity We Might Have to Build

by Dan | Nov 30, 2020 | Exploring the End Game

Defining the Term A utility-monster is Rober Nozak’s thought experiment about an entity who could be so happy as to outshine all possible happiness of all possible humans, and humans (by utilitarian logic) would be obligated to serve this monster – and...
Husk – The Supremacy of Digital Worlds in the Posthuman Transition

Husk – The Supremacy of Digital Worlds in the Posthuman Transition

by Dan | Aug 30, 2020 | Managing the Transhuman Transition

In the coming 20-30 years, I suspect we’ll enter a phase of the posthuman transition (what I refer to as “Phase 4”) where brain-machine interface technology (possibly in combination with VR, pharmacology, and nanotech) will facilitate better...
State of Nature, or Solidarity? The Birth of Artificial General Intelligence

State of Nature, or Solidarity? The Birth of Artificial General Intelligence

by Dan | May 4, 2020 | Amoral Solipsism, Exploring the End Game

The advancement of the sciences will, at some point in the decades of centuries ahead, lead humanity to a place where we can expand our cognition and sentience, and potentially build artificial general intelligences vastly beyond our own. Exactly how that transition...
As Much as Humanity Can Hope for in the Long Term

As Much as Humanity Can Hope for in the Long Term

by Dan | Mar 14, 2020 | Managing the Transhuman Transition

As human beings we are propelled by our varied hopes, our lives are in many ways driven by them. On the day-to-day, we hope to make the sale, to avoid traffic, to feel better after a good night’s sleep. In the context of our lifetime, we hope to finish our book,...
Arguments Against Friendly AI and Inevitable Machine Benevolence

Arguments Against Friendly AI and Inevitable Machine Benevolence

by Dan | Jan 31, 2020 | Exploring the End Game, Managing the Transhuman Transition

Superintelligence holds the promise of potentially unlocking the secrets of nature or truth, alleviating suffering on earth, or destroying us all. I have long argued that the emergence of post-human intelligence will almost certainly imply to end of humanity as we...
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