Adding genetic interests to utilitarianism
With general artificial intelligence (AI) possibly available in the near future, many people are debating the future moral status of AIs. Here's the outline of my argument: Under utilitarianism, AI…
Book review: The Revolutionary Phenotype
Over the years, the enthusiastic fans of Jean Francois Gariepy (JFG) have been trying to goad me into reading his book. I had avoided it because people I trust say…
Killing Hollywood and Youtube and
So you've seen stuff like this: There's an endless such number of photos, nearly literally. AI will generate these on the fly for any content you desire. So since a…
Making better use of the scientific literature: large-scale automatic retrieval of data from published figures
Science is a set of related methods that aim at finding true patterns about the world. These methods are generally designed so as to remove noise from random circumstances (the…
Review: The Second Machine Age (Brynjolfsson & McAfee)
Goodreads. Libgen. This book is background material for CGPGrey's great short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU So, if you saw that and are more curious, perhaps this book is for you. If the…
Review: Superintelligence (Nick Bostrom)
Goodreads. Ebook. To those who don't know Bostrom, he's a prof of filosofy at Oxford. His book concerns superintelligence which is defined "any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance…
As AI improves, what is the long-term solution to spam?
I've thought about this question a few times but haven't found a good solution yet. The problem needs more attention. AI and computer recognition of images is getting better. I'll…
Dances with robots
Af Emil Kirkegaard Afleveret som engelsk stil, derfor er der et resume, men jeg tænkte, at diskussionen var værd at poste her også. Artiklen der refereres til hedder "Dances with…