Category Archives: Philosophy
Concise Argument for ASI Risk
I listened to the debate between Stephen Wolfram and Eliezer Yudkowsky on Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST). I found the discussion frustrating, since it felt like they were trying to have two very different conversations: Wolfram questioning basic principles and … Continue reading
How Smart will ASI be?
The development of AI is pushing towards AGI. To many, once you have AGI, you quickly and inevitably achieve ASI (superintelligence), since AGI can do AI research and thus AI iteratively self-improves (at an exponential rate). Others sometimes doubt that … Continue reading
Her in the age of chatbots
Over the last couple years of rising generative-AI, I have frequently heard people look disapprovingly at human-chatbot interactions, and wink knowingly along the lines of “they made a whole movie about how this is a bad idea”. They seem to … Continue reading
Can we Distinguish Human from AI?
Let’s pull together some information (as of 2024-08-16): Overall, the ability to distinguish human from AI in an online setting is becoming challenging; especially in cases where a human can intervene where necessary to maintain the ruse. Update 2024-09-01
Consistency Problems with Simulation Hypothesis
The simulation hypothesis is quite simple: we could be living in a simulation. Nick Bostrom makes this more concrete. Since simulating realities appears to be physically possible, either intelligent species (like future humans) choose not to simulate worlds (for some … Continue reading