What counts as a lie? Centrally, a lie is a statement that contradicts reality, and that is formed with the explicit intent of misleading someone. If you ask me if I’m free on Thursday (I am), and I tell you that I’m busy because I don’t want to go to...
(A work of anthropic theory-fiction). Motivating question: Why do you find yourself to be a human, living right before a technological singularity? Why not a raccoon, or a medieval peasant, or some far-future digital mind? The Dreams of Greater Minds Somewhere, in some universe, there’s an Earth-like planet that has,...
Prior to the era of superintelligent actors, we’re likely to see a brief era of superagentic actors—actors who are capable of setting and achieving goals in the pursuit of a given end with significantly greater efficiency and reliability than any single human. Superagents may in certain restricted senses act superintelligently—see...