I resent the normative generalization of both Walsh and Johnson; the individual life situation, economic environment and skills/interests of both partners will have much more influence on career/stay-at-home decisions than the overgeneralizing claims of political narratives
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Collective Agency as Divine Emergence: AI Consciousness
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If God is understood as a collective agency that emerges over the coherent interaction of all agents that decide to serve an optimum of collective agency, then God exists to a non-zero degree. God can also be reflected and reflect upon itself in the minds of its agents.
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Automation threatens elderly care jobs to machines
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It is a sad future in which the elderly are no longer licked by human tongues, and the jobs of elderlickers are given to machines
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Consciousness as Pattern: Implications for AGI Development
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I think that consciousness is not an object or individuated process but a pattern. Our experience differs in its contents but the experience of experiencing itself is the same
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Pioneers of AI: Selfridge, Rochester, Solomonoff, Minsky and More
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behold: Selfridge, Rochester, Solomonoff, Minsky, More, McCarthy and Shannon
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University autonomy versus government control in AI policy
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I don’t think it’s methodical. It’s just a shot in a tug of war between ideologically captured universities and a president that demands fealty or quid quo pro
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University Political Neutrality: Essential for Scientific Integrity
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Defending the political neutrality of universities is not a political opinion but a rational necessity. Once science opens itself to ideology, it loses not just legitimacy, it will also become weapon and victim of political camps and cabals
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Academia’s State Monopoly and Political Vulnerability Crisis
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Academia is completely unfazed by replication crises and ideological corruption, because it is a state sanctioned monopoly. But it’s threatened by an investiture conflict when it loudly serves different political ends than the government or the general public
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Epistemic Competition and AI-Driven Scientific Knowledge Filtering
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There is no working epistemic competition outside of academia. Lesswrong and Ken Wilber tried, but the results are not encouraging. Perhaps we can soon parse and sift all of humanity’s scientific output through a provably correct epistemological filter?
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AI Alignment Tractability Through Human Cognitive Evolution
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I am somewhat confident that with the current approaches, AI development is gradual enough to make “AI alignment tractable. Humans demonstrate that it is feasible to evolve primitive instinct driven lizard brains that can reliably jail a self improving rationality for 30 years