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Currently the foremost thinker on the ethics and safety of artificial general intelligence is Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.  On a few occasions I have tried to read some of his writings on this topic.  Every time, however, I would give up after about ten pages.  I found the ideas [...]

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I don’t trust philosophical arguments all that much. I think this comes from studying mathematics. To start with I try to see or feel a result and I then use this to either understand the essence of an existing proof, or to give me guidance in constructing a proof myself. I remember [...]

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I just got back from the European Futurists conference in Lucerne. It was very educational, but not in the way I had expected. Let me explain.
As probably all of you know, there is this concept of a “technological singularity”. It has a few definitions, one is that it is a point in [...]

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