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Eliezer Yukowsky, the author, has a TED talk about his premise.

I finished - and printed - my collection of short stories! There Be Monsters A collection of fantastical maritime-themed short stories...

For the past decade or so, there have been articles on writing resumes that attract interest, and how your skills and background can...

This is where the rubber hits the road, so to speak, and I completely agree with the above snip. Here is a quote from the article you...

Here is an example of what I mean by the threat of humans voluntarily giving up critical thinking in favor of letting AI do or pretend...

@jack action Look for simulated annealing (SA) algorithms and search for their applications if you are not familiar, it may give you...

Not deliberately. But one possible motivation for head-over-heels development of AI is more concern for the consequences of being 2nd...

Yah, unless we find a way to overcome the 2nd law, its not any part of our observable reality.

One can make (I read a very interesting argument years ago, if I can ever find it again I'll give due credit) a similar argument about...

I hope we can agree that intelligence requires some detectable thermodynamic processes occurring, though - a detectable increase in...

Some recent threads inspired me to want to make a list of the different notions of time we need in physics (As I write this, I am...

Everyone's Gone To The Moon - Jonathan King - 1965

Klondike is a stint scenario, I concede that one is viable to recruit for. Jamestown is a good analogy for the discussion in the...

I'm sure we are both applying myriad unstated assumptions in our individual 'theatres of the mind' when we make our assertions, and if...

Are there enough people willing to live permanently on the moon or mars to make it viable? I think it likely that there are plenty of...