Comic Interlude
Zach Weiner did a comic expressing my take on the Fermi Paradox. I think his depiction beats mine as far as quality is concerned. ^_^
View ArticleAGI Braindump Sept 2010
I wrote this up for someone who was interested in my thoughts on Artificial General Intelligence, and I thought I’d post it here as a kind of time capsule to show the state of my mind right now. If...
View ArticleProblem Not Solved: Unfriendly AI
Garry Kaspian walked into the toharina gymnasium cautiously. He was out of his element here; completely exposed to whatever these alien beings might chose to do to him. Kaspian was valued by the tohar...
View ArticleBecoming Mortal
As I’ve mentioned previously, I have a hard time with most science fiction. The only kind of the genre I can really respect is day-after-tomorrow sci-fi; the kind that explores the ramifications of a...
View ArticleSong
In the old days, before the mother was found When the cold earth waited patiently for spring Delicate creatures did scuttle across the ground And fly on fragile, feathered wing Ever vigilant of a...
View ArticleA Description of Egoism and the Singularity
I need to post what I write. I write often, to myself and to others, but so very often I feel as though the ideas and statements inside are somehow not worth publishing. This blog was only ever...
View ArticleThreats
Earlier today Aaron Saenz, the lead writer at Singularity Hub (an excellent tech news-blog) wrote a piece called The Myth of the Three Laws of Robotics – Why We Can’t Control Intelligence. In it he...
View ArticleThe Golem War
Here is the expanded version (still not what I would consider an “entertaining” level of detail) of a sci-fi plot I talked about on Twitter. I’m thinking it might work well as interactive fiction....
View ArticleRe: Conversations on Strong AI
I am having a conversation with Rod Furlan over on his blog about the possibility of self-preservation being an emergent property of intelligent systems. Just, you know… in case you were curious what...
View ArticleRobot Economics
Yesterday I read a question on Reddit which (mostly) boiled down to “What will happen to the economy as robots become advanced enough to do all the work?” Since I wrote some words, I thought I’d...
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