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Tic-Tac-Oh What’s The Point…

By Raelifin | Published: February 9, 2011

I’m right now working on building a reasoning agent. Given a model of the environment and a set of goals, it will attempt to take the best action. As a basic test, I have a model of a game of Tic-Tac-Toe for it to play against itself. For a long time my agent was picking [...]

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Becoming Mortal

By Raelifin | Published: January 10, 2011

As I’ve mentioned previously, I have a hard time with most science fiction. The only kind of the genre I can really respect is day-after-tomorrow sci-fi; the kind that explores the ramifications of a specific technology on our world as it exists now (Dollhouse is a good example). Most of my interest nowadays hovers around [...]

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Problem Not Solved: Unfriendly AI

By Raelifin | Published: December 16, 2010

Garry Kaspian walked into the toharina gymnasium cautiously. He was out of his element here; completely exposed to whatever these alien beings might chose to do to him. Kaspian was valued by the tohar because he was incredibly good at playing Lome, a sport of theirs similar to basketball. The tohar had no hands, only [...]

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One Genius or Two Normals

By Raelifin | Published: December 7, 2010

Let’s say you have a puzzle. Who would you rather hire to solve it: two strangers from the street-corner or an intellectual giant (Einstein, Da Vinci, whomever). Let’s say that this puzzle relates to cutting-edge science and technology. How many people of average intellect equal one genius?

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Nice Summary of Emergent Values

By Raelifin | Published: September 24, 2010

Stephen Omohundro: The Basic AI Drives via Michael Anissimov on Accelerating Future Other good stuff can be found at http://selfawaresystems.com/.

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