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| | Introduction Imagine you are tasked with curing a disease which hasn't appeared yet. Setting aside why you would know about such a disease's emergen...
| | idlewords.com
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| | [AI summary] The speaker critiques the overemphasis on AI existential risks, arguing that current AI systems pose more immediate ethical concerns such as surveillance, bias, and power dynamics. They compare the current state of AI research to alchemy, suggesting that we are still in the early stages of understanding the mind and should focus on practical challenges rather than speculative fears. The speaker advocates for better science fiction and more grounded ethical discussions to guide AI development, emphasizing the need for humility and practical solutions over alarmism.
| | www.greaterwrong.com
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| | After spending a decade or two living inside a mind, you might think you knew a bit about how minds work, right? That's what quite a few AGI wannabes (people who think they've got what it takes to program an Artificial General Intelligence) seem to have concluded. This, unfortunately, is wrong. Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally about reducing the mental to the non-mental. You might want to contemplate that sentence for a while. It's important. Living inside a human mind doesn't teach you the art of reductionism, because nearly all of the work is carried out beneath your sight, by the opaque black boxes of the brain. So far beneath your sight that there is no introspective sense that the black box is there-no internal sensory event marking that the wor...
| | wattsupwiththat.com
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| Guest post by Dr. Tony Brown "Personal carbon rations would have to be mandatory, imposed by Government in the same way that food rationing was introduced in the UK in 1939... Each person would receive an electronic card containing their year's carbon credits ...see the Tyndall Centre's study on "domestic tradable quotas"... and their recent...