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Turing's Test Has Not Been Passed
Not as described, not the spirit of it, not even "almost"
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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
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…
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Intelligence or Death
Suicide (…what does this have to do with intelligence?) When I suggested during a Twitter conversation that artificial intelligences could be inclined…
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Sense of Meaning
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…
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Two Meanings of Life
A first meaning Robin Hanson remarks on the relationship between evolution and values: Biological evolution selects roughly for creatures that do…
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Life, the Universe, and Everything
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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A New Beginning
Migrating my blog to Substack
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How to Build an Artificial Human
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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