Category Archives: Thoughts

Is Consciousness Real? A Practical Answer.

By Raelifin | Published: January 31, 2012

This is a conversation I had back in October, but I haven’t posted anything recently, so I figured I’d copypasta it here for posterity. A friend wrote: Do you think consciousness is (i) A real phenomenon (ii) Unreal phenomenon ? Real here means that there exist (a) physical process/es (in the brain) that causally correspond [...]

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Extremist Language

By Raelifin | Published: November 4, 2011

On the 27th, which was 8 days ago, now, Jon Stewart had Andrew Napolitano on The Daily Show. I am a self-described libertarian. I voted for Ron Paul in 2008 (yes, I know he wasn’t on the ballot). I also love The Daily Show and Mr. Stewart; I think he’s insightful, wise, and funny. Here’s [...]

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Re: Conversations on Strong AI

By Raelifin | Published: August 1, 2011

I am having a conversation with Rod Furlan over on his blog about the possibility of self-preservation being an emergent property of intelligent systems. Just, you know… in case you were curious what I’m up to. Edit: I am commenting. I did not send the original email.

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Synaptic Growth (Economics)

By Raelifin | Published: May 16, 2011

I am not a motorist. I dislike most everything about cars, and I do not drive (or even know how). I get rides between places that aren’t practical to walk to bike to, but when I have free time I like to be impractical and walk between them anyway, even if it takes me several [...]

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Threats

By Raelifin | Published: May 10, 2011

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 dismissed fears of “robot apocalypse”, saying: Let’s get something out of the way. I’m not worried about a robot apocalypse. [...]

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