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What Should AI Be Doing?

What Should AI Be Doing?

  • Post Author:Gabriel
  • Post published:May 22, 2020
  • Post Category:artificial intelligence / nonduality / philosophy
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I recently finished Brian Cantwell Smith's excellent book The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment. It's a bit different from other recent popular books on AI, as it is…

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Marshall Davis on Christian and Taoist Non-Duality

Marshall Davis on Christian and Taoist Non-Duality

  • Post Author:Gabriel
  • Post published:March 27, 2020
  • Post Category:nonduality / philosophy / religion
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I haven't been a Christian since I was a teenager. I grew up in a non-denominational protestant family, but my parents were hippies and, when I was young, organized religion…

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Transformative Experience and Skepticism

Transformative Experience and Skepticism

  • Post Author:Gabriel
  • Post published:March 26, 2020
  • Post Category:philosophy / religion
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I previously posted about this discussion between Sean Carroll and LA Paul. It's very fascinating, and is basically about the difficulty of making choices when the choice that is made…

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Uncertain Preferences, Transformative Experiences, and AI

Uncertain Preferences, Transformative Experiences, and AI

  • Post Author:Gabriel
  • Post published:March 5, 2020
  • Post Category:artificial intelligence / philosophy / religion
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I recently finished Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell, and I highly recommend it. A lot has been written in the past 5-10 years…

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Aversions to Idealism

Aversions to Idealism

  • Post Author:Gabriel
  • Post published:February 1, 2020
  • Post Category:consciousness / philosophy of mind / physics / Uncategorized
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I was reading John Heil's (fairly brief) discussion of idealism in his philosophy of mind book. It's an interesting read because he spends most of the time saying that the…

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Consciousness and A.I.

Consciousness and A.I.

  • Post Author:Gabriel
  • Post published:January 29, 2020
  • Post Category:artificial intelligence / consciousness / philosophy of mind
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I am reading Stuart Russell's new book Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, and highly recommend it. A lot has been written in the past few years…

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Blogging “Artificial You,” Part IV

Blogging “Artificial You,” Part IV

  • Post Author:Gabriel
  • Post published:December 31, 2019
  • Post Category:artificial intelligence / consciousness / language / philosophy of mind
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In Chapter 4 of the book, Schneider discusses possible tests of consciousness for artificial agents. I'll briefly summarize the tests here and add a few comments: The AI Consciousness Test…

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Blogging “Artificial You,” Part III

Blogging “Artificial You,” Part III

  • Post Author:Gabriel
  • Post published:December 9, 2019
  • Post Category:artificial intelligence / consciousness / philosophy / philosophy of mind
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Chapter 3 of Artificial You has three basic purposes: Explaining why AI might develop in such a way that superintelligent AIs are not conscious. Explaining that we might need to…

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Blogging “Artificial You”, Part II

Blogging “Artificial You”, Part II

  • Post Author:Gabriel
  • Post published:December 3, 2019
  • Post Category:artificial intelligence / consciousness / philosophy of mind
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In this post, I'll review Chapter 2 of Schneider's book Artificial You. The previous review post is here. The Problem of AI Consciousness In Chapter 2, Schneider introduces what she…

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Blogging Susan Schneider’s “Artificial You”, Part I

Blogging Susan Schneider’s “Artificial You”, Part I

  • Post Author:Gabriel
  • Post published:November 29, 2019
  • Post Category:artificial intelligence / consciousness / philosophy of mind
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I've recently started reading Susan Schneider's new book Artificial You, and have decided to write about it as I go. The subtitle is "AI and the Future of Your Mind,"…

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