Dear Viktoriya,
While the mission statement of your organization seemed fair at the time, I believe that the AI expertise level of your board is not sufficiently high, and your board of “scientific advisors” have little to do with actual
… Scratch Artificial, Is Intelligence an Existential Risk?
Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology pose a threat to human society? Any technology, in the wrong hands, may pose a threat to humans, after all technology is defined by its provision of higher capabilities than what we are naturally endowed …
Evidence of biological basis for religion in human evolution
Belief in religion is neuro-anatomically not the same thing as rational thinking, interesting study:
Evidence of biological basis for religion in human evolution.
This is quite sensible, as I have seen many cases where I saw otherwise intelligent and knowledgeable …
An Open Letter to Daniel Dennett and Henry Markram on TSC 2014 Conference
Apparently, the assumption of dualists is that when competent philosophers and scientists agree to give talks at their “conference”s, then their views suddenly become scientifically credible! I am attempting to thwart this misdirection by the following open letter to two …
Intelligence Explosion, Infinity Point, and the Law of Accelerating Returns
Video log from Gok Us WHQ:
Transcript
Hello there,
My name’s Eray Ozkural and I’d like to talk to you about the intelligence explosion, the infinity point hypothesis, the law of accelerating returns and the relations between them. In 1965, …
Why the Simulation Argument is Invalid
In this philosophical piece, I will try to summarize the main reasons why the so-called simulation argument a la Bostrom is most certainly invalid. I will show, from the perspective of science and empiricist philosophy, that it hinges on …
Digital Physics vs. The Simulation Argument
Recently, there has been widespread confusion about digital physics relating it to the simulation argument.
Digital physics, the hypothesis that the universe is a kind of digital computer is most likely true. Simulation argument is not. It is a very …
The Cylon Argument
A parody, infused in a bit of science fiction….
Year 2041. Brain emulations are very common. After the 2039 international agreements, virtually every country has had to approve of brain simulations as continuations or branches of their legal citizens. A …
Diverse Consequences of Algorithmic Probability
Here is my presentation for the following paper titled Diverse Consequences of Algorithmic Probability.
The slides aren’t viewed well in the video, so here they are:
Slides to Diverse Consequences of Algorithmic Probability
Probably the most interesting thing about this …
Godseed: benevolent or malevolent?
Introduction
One of the most interesting questions we’ve ever pondered on the ai-philosophy mailing list was how you would build an “angelic” autonomous AI. Would it be possible to make some kind of angel’s mind that, by design, achieves only …