Marshall Davis on Christian and Taoist Non-Duality
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…
Transformative Experience and Skepticism
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…
Uncertain Preferences, Transformative Experiences, and AI
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…
Aversions to Idealism
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…
Consciousness and A.I.
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…
Blogging “Artificial You,” Part IV
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…
Blogging “Artificial You,” Part III
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…
Blogging “Artificial You”, Part II
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…
Blogging Susan Schneider’s “Artificial You”, Part I
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,"…
The Mindless Hypothesis
In the previous post, I talked about Alex Byrne's paper Skepticism about the Internal World (PDF). In that post, I focused on the first part of the paper, and in…