Compiled by Ben Goertzel here, HT to Kaj Sotala on LessWrong. Posting this partly as a note to myself so I don’t lose the link, but may be of interest to other people here.
Mind uploading: a link to a bunch of more links to preprints of journal articles
June 28, 2012 By 1 Comment
LessWrong and cryonics
June 18, 2012 By 7 Comments
Since I occasionally mention LessWrong and Eliezer Yudkowsky in favorable ways, I get questions about them from people who are suspicious. One thing that makes people suspicious is apparent high levels of enthusiasm for cryonics, which Quackwatch has labeled quackery, in part reasoning that we know brain cells deteriorate within minutes after death.
At LessWrong: Why a human (or group of humans) might create unFriendly AI halfway on purpose
April 30, 2012 By 16 Comments
This post that I just wrote contains some of the stuff on evolutionary psychology I’ve been meaning to write more about here: Too many people–at least, too many writers of the kind of fiction where the villain turns out to be an all-right guy in the end–seem to believe that if someone is the hero [...]
It’s hard to plan 75 years into the future
March 23, 2012 By 3 Comments
Here’s another thing thing to fuels my LessWrong-inspired “trying to think about the future” kick:
Posting at LessWrong
February 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I’ve started doing some bloggy-style posts at LessWrong, a site that’s somewhere between a discussion forum and a blog, and which you should be reading in any case. I just put up a post titled “Two kinds of irrationality and how to avoid one of them,” and previously did a post titled “Tell LessWrong about [...]
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