by Dan | Aug 27, 2018 | Transhuman Transition
“Programmatically Generated Everything” (PGE) is a theorized future scenario where the digital or virtual world becomes more fulfilling, productive, and useful than the physical world – triggering a tipping point whereby humans are pulled into...
by Dan | Aug 17, 2018 | AI Policy and Governance, Controlling Intelligent Substrate
I’ll begin this short entry with a supposition that might seem bold: In the remaining part of the 21st century, all competition between the world’s most powerful nations or organizations (whether economic competition, political competition, or military conflict) is...
by Dan | Jul 15, 2018 | Digitized and Digested, Glossary
“Digitized and digested” is the future scenario which I consider to be a likely long-term future for humanity, should we survive the initial growing pains of the singularity. By long-term, I could mean 100 or 10,000 years – though the real timeframe...
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...
