This is a guest post from Luke Muehlhauser, author of Common Sense Atheism and Worldview Naturalism, and Executive Director of MIRI.
Will Moore’s law fail us?
April 28, 2013 By 3 Comments
As a follow up to my “Fifty year intervals” post: will changes in computing technology in the next fifty years really be as radical–or even more radical–than the “punch cards to smartphones and Google’s entire product line” transition of the past fifty years?
The future is a long time
April 28, 2013 By 2 Comments
A conversation I meant to blog about a couple months ago, but forgot about until now:
A summary of the problems I see with philosophy–and why I’m thinking of going back anyway
April 21, 2013 By 35 Comments
This is a post I’ve been struggling to write for awhile. It’s a response to a couple questions I got in the March open thread, one by someone who wanted to have a “link handy when I want to show people just how crappy (analytic) philosophy is,” while the other asked, “Since you spend a [...]
Philosophy of religion without apologetics?
April 2, 2013 By 12 Comments
Recently, in an exercise in thinking about things that are way too far off in the future to be really thinking about, I wondered: “If I do eventually get a Ph.D. in philosophy, and end up on the philosophy job market, will I list philosophy of religion as an AoC?” (AoC stands for Area of [...]
What papers you should read on AI risk and related issues
January 22, 2013 By 2 Comments
In this comment thread, there was one point where I ended up just quoting Eliezer Yudkowsky at length, and more points where I was tempted to do so. But I think it would be more productive to write a post telling people what papers they should read if they have a serious interest in this [...]
What I’d do in a zombie apocalypse
December 21, 2012 By 18 Comments
In honor of the apocalypse that didn’t happen yesterday (it’s already Saturday morning in my timezone), I though I’d answer a question that’s near and dear to the hearts of many people of my generation: what would you do in a zombie apocalypse?
Why you should consider donating to the Singularity Institute (I did!)
July 19, 2012 By 17 Comments
I’ve been on the fence for awhile about whether the Singularity Institute is worth donating to. I alluded to my uncertainty in my post on Kony 2012. I finally made my first donation just now. Two things pushed me over the edge.
Apparently, PZ didn’t read Sandberg and Bostrom very carefully
July 15, 2012 By 30 Comments
So… when I first read PZ’s recent post on uploading, it wasn’t quite clear what his objections were, but I thought maybe he had some good points. But reading his responses in the comments thread, it quickly becomes clear that while PZ claims to have read Sandberg and Bostrom’s paper, he must not have read [...]
“The Singularity” and why the world will change more than (almost?) anyone can imagine in the next century or two
July 13, 2012 By 19 Comments
This post is apropos of nothing, aside from being something I wish were more widely understood. It has to do with AI and uploading and “the Singularity” (a confusing term that can actually mean several different things). I’m going to focus on uploading because in some ways it’s the most straightforward thing.
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