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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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