Not as described, not the spirit of it, not even "almost"
James Chastek claims somewhere (I was not able to find the specific citation just now) that no one would die for a truth of mathematics; martyrdom, he…
Suicide (…what does this have to do with intelligence?) When I suggested during a Twitter conversation that artificial intelligences could be inclined…
In the last post, I noted that giving an abstract response to a general question about the meaning of life is different from giving someone a personal…
A first meaning Robin Hanson remarks on the relationship between evolution and values: Biological evolution selects roughly for creatures that do…
In Chapter 25 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams makes fun of questions about the meaning of life: There are of course many problems…
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Migrating my blog to Substack
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I was going to use "Artificial Intelligence" in the title here but realized after thinking about it that the idea is really more specific than that. I…
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