Tag Archives: existential risk

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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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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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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Comic Interlude

By Raelifin | Published: September 18, 2010

Zach Weiner did a comic expressing my take on the Fermi Paradox. I think his depiction beats mine as far as quality is concerned. ^_^

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