by Dan | May 15, 2021 | Reflecting on What I've Read
I have a great respect for Bostrom, and genuinely believe him to be one of the most important thinkers alive today. I agree with a great many of his ideas, and have been influenced my many of his essays over the last decade, from What is a Singleton? to Utopia and...
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...
by Dan | Apr 4, 2019 | Reflecting on What I've Read
Pardon the esoteric-ness of this post. I’m afraid it’ll neither be humorous or relevant for those who haven’t read these thinkers, or for those who aren’t familiar with their work. David Pearce Ralph Waldo Emerson Michel de Montaigne Nayef...
by Dan | Jan 9, 2019 | Discerning the Good Itself, Reflecting on What I've Read, The Good Must Be Explored
What matters most? If we have a reasonable chance of building conscious AI and/or post-human intelligence in the next 60 years, it makes sense for us to consider where we’re headed. If we presume we have any control over our fate at all – where will we point the...
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 | 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...
