by Dan | Jul 26, 2018 | Creating or Enhancing Consciousness, Reflecting on What I've Read, The Good Must Be Explored
Many months ago, Peter Voss came through San Francisco and we sat down for a coffee at my favorite place in Hayes Valley, Arlequin. We chatted a bit of business first. Peter runs Aigo.ai, and his work on natural language is a lot of fun to discuss. Similarly, we...
by Dan | Jul 21, 2018 | Consciousness is What Counts, Reflecting on What I've Read
I spoke recently at a United Nations and INTERPOL event in Singapore, on the topic of artificial intelligence use-cases in law enforcement. One of the only other Americans at the event – and a fellow speaker – was Thomas Campbell. Thomas spent many years...
by Dan | Jul 15, 2018 | Morality as Arbitrary and Contextual, Reflecting on What I've Read, The Good Must Be Explored
Many months ago, Peter Voss (who we’ve interviewed previously on the TechEmergence podcast) came through San Francisco and we sat down for a coffee at my favorite place in Hayes Valley, Arlequin Cafe. We chatted a bit of business first. Peter runs Aigo.ai, and...
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...
by Dan | Oct 6, 2013 | Interviews with Researchers
Dr. Thomas Ray is Harvard-educated doctor of Biology, and also the original researcher in the Tierra Artificial Life project. Tierra ended up receiving major media coverage all over the world as one of the most promising forays in generating “evolution”...
