Translation from Russian. Original text available here. The first part available here. This Is a Fraud, Gentlemen! Last time we ended with a look at games where everything is fair. Well, "fair" in the sense that the chances of winning in a basic game are equal — although perhaps the...
Translation from Russian. Original text available here. When I was about thirteen, a question occurred to me. Suppose we have a point at coordinates (0, 0). We flip a coin, and if it comes up heads, we move the point one unit to the right. If it's tails, we move...
Artificial Programming of Human Needs: A Path to Degradation or a New Impetus for Development? Viktor Argonov // Problems of Philosophy. 2008. No. 12. P. 22-37 // Translation from Russian. Original text available here. Translator's Introduction What if we could not just satisfy our desires, but rewrite their source code?...