lorepieri

The rules: 1. Pressing the button will instantly terminate every single human being (including you). 2. Pressing the button is completely anonymous. Nobody will know you did it, now or in the far future. 3. The button cannot malfunction. 4. The button does not have any secondary effects. 5. The...

Technology has been a transformative force for our civilisation and it is poised to play an increasing role going forward. Recent progress in Artificial Intelligence spurred discussions about how we should approach the development of the next generation of AI applications, potentially leading to human-level performances on a wide range...

Understanding and updating beliefs on deeply engrained topics can take enormous efforts, but sometimes it can be so hard that the listener cannot even in principle accept the new reality. The listener is simply not ready, he lacks a vast background of reasoning leading to the new understanding. What fact...

Current intelligence definitions are either partial or do not provide an actionable evaluation of intelligence, something tangible which can be used to quantify the potential of a given AGI. In absence of this definition we commonly define intelligence as the result accuracy of an intelligence test, for instance an IQ...

The recent publication of Gato spurred a lot of discussion on wheter we may be witnessingth the first example of AGI. Regardless of this debate, Gato's makes use of recent developments in reinforcement learning, that is using supervised learning on reinforcement learning trajectories by exploiting the ability of transformer architectures...

I've just created an awesome-github list of post-scarcity links and resources. Feel free to send pull requests to add new entries to the list. https://github.com/lorepieri8/awesome-post-scarcity