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I wrote (with some help!) a Singularity FAQ for the Singularity Institute’s website.
Yes, Conversations from the Pale Blue Dot will return, hopefully before the end of the year.
From Twitter:
- Dave Meslin TED video: The antidote to apathy.
- What is moral realism?
- The science of why we don’t believe in science.
- Good interview with Michael Anissimov on the risks of artificial intelligence.
- “Due to the high number of students that are feigning illness to play Portal 2, there will be no class tomorrow.”
- A summary of how economists think you should invest.
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On the singularity, when machines get intelligent enough to read philosophy books, they will spend all their time arguing and we humans will be on our own again!
Tom
Sweet water Tom(Quote)
Tom,
Heh.
Luke Muehlhauser(Quote)
will Megaposts return as well?
Taranu(Quote)
Maybe.
Luke Muehlhauser(Quote)
Moral realism:
I see now that the point of Yudkowsky’s rigid-designator metaethics is to have a metaethics that is realist (in the sense of Sayre-McCord), reductive, and belief-independent (so also realist in the sense of Brink).
Nisan(Quote)
Nisan,
Yes. I think Yudkowsky could have presented metaethics more clearly if he had not tried so hard to preserve a feeling of something like ‘moral realism.’ My own approach just sidesteps the entire issue.
Luke Muehlhauser(Quote)
More Muddled Thinking about the Brain
Reginald Selkirk(Quote)
@Reginald. I sense a future Tempelton prize winner here!
Sweet water Tom(Quote)
Thanks for the link, Reginald.
Luke Muehlhauser(Quote)