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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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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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The Mindless Hypothesis

The Mindless Hypothesis

  • Post Author:Gabriel
  • Post published:November 23, 2019
  • Post Category:consciousness / language / philosophy / philosophy of mind
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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…

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Alex Byrne and Skepticism About the External World

Alex Byrne and Skepticism About the External World

  • Post Author:Gabriel
  • Post published:November 20, 2019
  • Post Category:consciousness / philosophy / philosophy of mind
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I recently read Alex Byrne's paper Skepticism About the Internal World (PDF warning), and in this post I want to focus on the first part of the paper, where he…

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Machines and Understanding

Machines and Understanding

  • Post Author:Gabriel
  • Post published:November 7, 2019
  • Post Category:artificial intelligence / consciousness / philosophy / philosophy of mind
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This recent blog post by Thomas Dietterich has received much well-deserved attention. And while the title What does it mean for a machine to "understand"? sounds like a philosophical work,…

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Infallibility, Inflation, and Explosion

Infallibility, Inflation, and Explosion

  • Post Author:Gabriel
  • Post published:November 7, 2019
  • Post Category:consciousness / philosophy / philosophy of mind
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In this very interesting discussion between Richard Brown, Keith Frankish, and Philip Goff, Frankish makes the point that the core of his illusionist view is the denial of a phenomenal…

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Richard Brown and Keith Frankish on Illusionism

Richard Brown and Keith Frankish on Illusionism

  • Post Author:Gabriel
  • Post published:October 11, 2019
  • Post Category:consciousness / philosophy / philosophy of mind
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I'm glad I listened to this discussion between Richard Brown and Keith Frankish on Consciousness Live, as Brown seems to have many of the same questions about illusionism that I…

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