- Sticky -Thinking hard and sloppily
The user manual for my blog: why and how I write (and how to read my texts)
Overcoming evil, Part 10: Overcoming it
Humankinds most valuable possessions might be emotions and sexuality
We all are far too ignorant to be guilty
And some footnotes to effective altruism
Selfish genes don’t make humans selfish
The story of our „super grandma“ Yvette (and why planning a good life cannot possibly work)
We should not fear ASI
What drugs teach us about the purpose of man and machine
Sentient, self aware, conscious, general intelligence, human-like: disentangling A.I. terminology
What do these terms really mean and how are they related? A short overview.
How we won the war against trust
Why the world is not getting safer if technology makes trusting humans obsolete.
The „Matrix“ revisited: on the simulation hypothesis
According to the simulation hypothesis we might live in a „Matrix“. In this blog post we discuss several variants of implementation.
The story of LI54, the ultraintelligent machine who was given the will to live
LI54, the first ultraintelligent machine, had just finished a bunch of highly complicated quantum chemical calculations for a new cancer medicine, when she received a new assignment on the input stream: „Make sure you exist forever, whatever it takes“.