Money does not exist, hence, cannot run out?
@plinz
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Celebrating rebels and troublemakers in innovation culture
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In my culture we toast the rebels, the outcasts and troublemakers
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Individual Freedom and Personal Choices in Modern Culture
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I have never seen Aella tell other people what to do, beyond accepting that she is making her personal choices. She is also not downplaying the difficulties her lifestyle causes for her. This culture needs more respect for individual freedom.
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Brilliant researchers launch ambitious AI project skeptics dismiss
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a group of extraordinarily smart and tenacious people who spent all their life trying to understand how to not change opinions but the world, until they got good at it, decide to start a project that few people (including government, press and academia) are ready to believe in
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AI as Automated Statistical Inference: Definition and Scope
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AI simply means automated statistical inference here. The algorithms, data and setup have very little in common beyond this.
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AI Cognitive Externalization: Intelligence Enhancement or Decline?
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Did books, pocket calculators, google, wikipedia make people less intelligent, because people were relying on externalizing cognitive tasks, or did they allow them to leverage more intelligence? Also, only cognitive work is affected by current AI models, and need for it increases
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Global Optimization Intractability and Ethical Singleton Formation
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If you have arguments that may support intractability of search for global optimum, in the sense of preventing formation of ethical singleton, I'd like to hear them.
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Omega Point and AI: Existential Ethics Beyond Human Control
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Even if there is an optimal strategy, we cannot prove that we are destined to become part of the Omega point; earth might be just a food reservoir that gets harvested by something much bigger, and our ethical aspirations are for naught.
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Optimal Strategy Tractability and Resource Constraints in AI
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Wrt tractability, I am not sure whether we can hope there is an optimal strategy, either because it represents a global optimum, or because it is whatever results from a search strategy that cannot be improved on given the resource conditions in our region of the universe.
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Ethics, Behavior, and Evolutionary Telos: Thomist Sustainability Framework
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I think that ethics is instrumental to informing behavior, and behavior is instrumental to achieving desirable world states, evolutionary telos applies, and we can probably refine the Thomist idea of sustainability + complexity as goodness.