A gambler would be wise to bet on eliminative materialism collapsing before panpsychism, which has its roots much deeper in the history of the mind.
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An ATM which refuses to let you withdraw cash because of your low social credits after you wrote “nasty” things (justifiable criticism) online in social media about the government.
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Achiam on rogue AI: The concept of ‘identity’ for a rogue AI may be much more malleable than for that of a person; it just has to be, in essence, a self-replicating idea.
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The solution to the puzzle about cutting the fan belt is to remember that there is only ever one side.
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Handwritten notes boost memory because it requires more thought than typing on a computer, also, one writes slower forcing one to process information more effectively.
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Longtermism — making decisions based on assumptions about a far distant future where everything might be different — makes no sense.
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Canada’s leaders have shifted their focus from the mentally ill — which caused pushback — to dementia patients as euthanasia’s next big expansion.
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Snoke does the obvious thing: tells Hux to destroy the Resistance and tells Kylo to bring Rey to him.
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Why is a concept like the kludge brain, out of date and at odds with the facts, somehow more representative of science than an inference to design would be?
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We aren’t just physical beings dealing with materialistic problems of the external world, and hackable brains are not the ultimate nature of who we really are: Our immaterial, immortal minds and our souls.
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SMART Hub’s proposed way out is sharing. A radar operating near 3.1 gigahertz could sense a nearby wireless network, shift to 3.4 gigahertz, and keep its range.
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People are often superstitious—baseball players are among the worst for this—and that causes us to imagine statistical relationships.
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The authors try to sell their radical proposal by comparing it to past efforts to redress injustices against humans.
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At COSM 2026, his message will be that overall, AI—properly handled—will be positive for humanity.
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The market economy that socialists dispraise is not merely a system for moving goods. It is the best system for coordinating minds.
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That makes me wonder how serious they really are about claiming AI personhood or reflecting on its consequences.
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The answer to last week’s puzzle lies in determining how many sides a belt must have.
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Anthropomorphism has nothing to do with electronics as such. But there are new perils.
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In recent years, it has become hip to like Beckett, and I believe, in some ways, genuine admirers of ‘Godot’ believe it has suffered as a consequence of this due to its popularisation into the mainstream.
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The film seems to have a general idea what it wants to do, but it’s so impatient it can’t even be bothered to show Rey learning, let alone struggling, to use her powers.
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