AI as the slightly unbeatable opponent Introduction I’ve thought about this problem quite a lot since 2008 when I first encountered the idea of “Friendly AI” and that artificial intelligence could be something other than cool and science-fictiony and Matrix-y. My conclusion to date is that the arguments I’ve seen...
Introduction I’d like to share information that is worth sharing. So I ask the question—what is valuable information? With the ubiquity of search engines and Wikipedia, much factual information can be found very quickly. However, in this era it is easy, even encouraged, to create “fake” information, including text, audio,...
When talking about definitions of good, it may be one’s first instinct to reach for philosophy. But there is a fairly obvious conception of good which is a simple extension of the evolutionary “survival” objective. Evolutionarily, every organism is in competition for finite resources, and those which fit their environment...