Morphic Anti-Resonance
Morphic resonance — in which patterns that have previously occurred are more likely to re-occur — is a powerful force, characteristic of human minds and cultures and also of the quantum world (cf...
View ArticleSimplificational Causal Decision Theory
In a few spare moments lately, I found myself revisiting issues regarding the foundations of decision theory, and came up with a few ideas that are somewhat new and maybe useful.TL;DR version is:I...
View ArticleFoundations of Coherent Value
The relation between minds, goals and values is complex and subtle. Here I will sketch a theory that aims to come to grips with key aspects of this subtlety -- articulating what is means for a value...
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Approximate Goal Preservation Under Recursive Self-Improvement
There is not much controversial about the idea that an AGI should have, among its goals, the goal of radically improving itself.A bit dodgier is the notion that an AGI should have, among its goals, the...
View ArticleThe Developmental Role of Incoherent Multi-Value Systems in Open-Ended...
So I have written in a recent post about what it would mean for a value system to be coherent -- i.e. fully self-consistent -- and I have noted that human value systems tend to be wildly incoherent....
View ArticleGPT3 -- Super-Cool but Not a Path to AGI
The hype around GPT3 recently has been so much that even OpenAI founder/CEO Sam Altman has endeavored to dial it down a notch. Like everyone else who has looked carefully, Altman knows that GPT3 is...
View ArticleGPT-f -- One More Funky Experiment in Guiding Theorem-Proving without...
… and some Thoughts on Syntactic vs. Semantic Approaches to Guiding Automated Theorem ProvingQuite a few people have been asking me these last few days about GPT-f, OpenAI's new foray into the domain...
View ArticleSand Talk, Singularity and Psi
It’s not that often I encounter a newly authored book that I consider a “must read” and avidly recommend to all my friends and colleagues -- but Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta genuinely falls into this...
View ArticleEternal Childhood of the Post-Singularity Mind
It has occurred to me many times, as I played with my various offspring (4 kids and one grandchild so far, one more little daughter due February!), that in many respects our post-Singularity selves are...
View ArticleThe Plight of the Humans
I haven't written song lyrics for quite some years but was recently inspired to update the lyrics of a song I wrote back in the late 90s or early aughts -- "Plight of the Humans" aka "I see it"Some of...
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