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.
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“Sugar cubes” – Refers to the tiny hypothetical form that human mind uploads might take when they are condensed and stored. These small cubes of computational substrate would likely contain…
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Many of my favorite quotes of Ralph Waldo Emerson seem to point to an important overarching idea, which I might summarize this way: We (humanity) exist as an arbitrary point…
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There was a time when hardly anything (politics, life, technology) fundamentally changed very much. Then there was a time when it became clear that technology and business were a constant,…
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Opening Note: This essay will serve not just as a reply to Torres, but to the many other thinkers, current and future, who will decide (either through their own readings,…
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Three short quotes from Emerson: The Virtue of a Pipe We impute deep-laid, far-sighted plans to Caesar and Napoleon; but the best of their power was in nature, not in…
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Not that long ago, I posted an article titled: Arguments Against Friendly AI and Inevitable Machine Benevolence, and it resulted in an interesting dialogue with Ben Goertzel (his comments, and…
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Total Recall is a 1990 Schwarzenegger blockbuster that, until yesterday, I had never seen. The movie centers around the story of a construction worker who is treated by a company…
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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…
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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…
