Why the Terminator is Inaccurate
Originally this was going to be a reply to Rose of Montague’s comment on my “Raw Data Now” post: “Dude. You’re teaching the machines to read. They’ll destroy us all!” That was clearly in jest, but I’ve...
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The Next Paradigm
Terminator 4 came out this Thursday. I haven’t seen it yet. I hope it’s better than Star Trek. Robotics confronts me continuously online, to the point where I cease to keep track. In terms of military...
View ArticleIntelligence Explosion
I’ve been fascinated for a while by the concept of a technological singularity. Of course, it’s ridiculously difficult to talk about because it sounds like an apocalypse theory (and kind of is). That’s...
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The Genius Of SIAI
This post is in some respects a response to “Terminated” on the GoiD blog, though I was already planning on writing something along these lines. I used to be more optimistic about the benevolence of...
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The Problem with Sci-Fi
WARNING: Rant ahead. Turn back now, or face my blabbering! I have a problem with science fiction: it’s too pessimistic. I don’t mean this in a “dystopian” sense, either. I mean that visions of the...
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...
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