Tag Archives: AI

‘Shopped

By Raelifin | Published: April 8, 2010

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The Genius Of SIAI

By Raelifin | Published: March 27, 2010

This post is in some respects a response to “Terminated” on the GoiD blog, though I was already planning on writing something along these lines. I used to be more optimistic about the benevolence of Artificial Intelligence (AGI). I figured that the worst thing that could happen would be the creation of truly intelligent machines [...]

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Resolving the Fermi Paradox

By Raelifin | Published: February 3, 2010

For a while I’ve been trying to figure out how to resolve the Fermi Paradox. For those of you who don’t know, the Paradox is, given what we know about life, the universe and everything, there should be a significant number of alien civilizations in our galaxy. The reasoning here boils down to the Drake [...]

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Written On The Bus

By Raelifin | Published: December 15, 2009

This blog comes straight from the middle of Kansas. The low rumble of the bus engine underscores the bleakness, as most other passengers on the bus are catching up on the sleep they were unable to get during the night. My mind is so active that I don’t easily become bored, but there’s something about [...]

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On the utility of game-changing technologies

By Raelifin | Published: September 28, 2009

A friend of mine posted a question to facebook that was roughly “what areas of society would you want people to invest in?” He suggested robots, colonizing Mars and researching anti-aging therapies (like SENS). I said that I agree about robots, but not about Mars. I was asked about my position on curing age-related disease. [...]

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