Morphics and Ethics
Reading the news about the Duterte, new Philippine leader, killing thousands of accused drug dealers and drug users without trial ... and noticing so many generally good-hearted Filipinos defend him on...
View ArticleMusing about inference control, biography and episodic memory
This is just some notes-to-myself type rambling about declarative and episodic memory and reasoning ... stuff I'm thinking through in the back of my mind related to some ongoing OpenCog detailed-design...
View ArticleMaxPat: The Maximum Pattern Creation Principle
I will argue here that, in natural environments (I’ll explain what this means below), intelligent agents will tend to change in ways that locally maximize the amount of pattern created. I will refer...
View ArticleSymbiobility
I want to call attention here to a concept that seems to get insufficient attention: “symbiobility”, or amenability to symbiosis.The word “symbiobility” appears to have been used quite infrequently,...
View ArticleThe Tech-Startup Attractor: Musings on the Thiel Fellowships, Singularity...
This Business Insider article on the outcome so far of the Thiel Fellowship experiment is interesting, though not surprising..As you may recall, Peter Thiel launched the Thiel Fellowship program as a...
View ArticleHow To Save the World
How to Save the World: The Biggest Risks Humanity Faces and How to Militate Against Them by Building a New Democratically-Oriented Global Techno-Social Fabric(Last week I had the opportunity to spend a...
View ArticleQigong in Shanghai
I'm on the way home from a consciousness conference in Shanghai — CSTS (Consciousness, Science, Technology and Society) conference. One of the more intriguing aspects of the conference, for me, was...
View ArticleMachine Learning for Plant Disease Diagnosis and Prediction
AI is being applied to everything these days -- including various fields of endeavor generally thought of as low-tech and backwards, such as agriculture.In this vein, I gave a talk last week in Leshan,...
View ArticleWho Owns Your Medical Data?
Questionable Relationship Between UK Government and Google Deep Mind Health Highlights the Need for Decentralized Medical Big Data and AIWhile my main interest remains in the algorithmics of creating...
View ArticleGoogle Deep Mind’s Bogus AI Patent Filings
I hadn't intended to write a second post in a row about politically weird stuff related to Google Deep Mind, but the news just keeps coming....This one gets filed in the “don’t know whether to laugh or...
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Toward an Analytical Understanding of Unconditional Love
Unconditional Love, Pattern Appreciation and Pareto-Optimal EmpathyOne of the ways we have been thinking about the "Loving AI" project, in which we are using the Sophia robot and other robotic or...
View ArticleSoftly, as in a Hard Takeoff
Ben (staring at the avatar face on his phone screen): Wait a minute, are you serious? You're telling me right now a phase transition to superhuman-level AGI has been achieved?GINA (Generally...
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The Simulation Hypothesis -- Not Nearly Crazy Enough to Be True
The "Simulation Hypothesis", the idea that our universe is some sort of computer simulation, has been getting more and more airtime lately. The rising popularity of the meme is not surprising since...
View Article"Deriving" Quantum Logic from Reason, Beauty and Freedom
One Basic Principle of this Corner of the Eurycosm: The Universe Maximizes Freedom Given Constraints of Reason and BeautyI was musing a bit about the basic concept at the heart of quantum logic and...
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Toward an Abstract Energetics of Computational Processes (in Brains, Minds,...
To ground the mappings he outlines, Tadaki gives a simple statistical mechanical interpretation to algorithmic information theory. He models an optimal computer as decoding equipment at the...
View ArticleLogical Inference Control via Quantum Partial Search — Maybe
Hmmm...While running SingularityNET and thinking about next-generation OpenCog and helping Ruiting with our charming little maniac Qorxi are taking up most of my time, I can’t help thinking here and...
View ArticleCan We "Discover" Semantic Primitives for Commonsense and Math via Semantic...
Once more wild-ish train of thought completely unrelated to anything immediately practical … I was thinking about Chalmers’ idea from Constructing the World that the notion of universal semantic...
View ArticleThe Likely Nasty Social, Economic and Surveillance Aftereffects of COVID-19...
A lot of attention right now is going into the question of flattening the curve of global COVID-19 infection -- and this is exactly right. I've been trying to do my own part here, via organizing the...
View ArticleGTGI -- General Theory of General Intelligence... coming gradually...
In the background, using spare time here and there, over the last few years I've managed to write down a series of sketchy research papers summarizing key aspects of what has been a long-running thread...
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