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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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The Problem with Sci-Fi

By Raelifin | Published: August 27, 2010

WARNING: Rant ahead. Turn back now, or face my blabbering! I have a problem with science fiction: it’s too pessimistic. I don’t mean this in a “dystopian” sense, either. I mean that visions of the future are haphazard in what technologies exist, and what people will need to do to survive. In the future, treadmills [...]

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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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Intelligence Explosion

By Raelifin | Published: July 21, 2009

I’ve been fascinated for a while by the concept of a technological singularity. Of course, it’s ridiculously difficult to talk about because it sounds like an apocalypse theory (and kind of is). That’s why I was so impressed with this talk by Eliezer Yudkowsky on the subject that was linked to by Accelerating Future recently: [...]

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The Next Paradigm

By Raelifin | Published: May 23, 2009

Terminator 4 came out this Thursday. I haven’t seen it yet. I hope it’s better than Star Trek. Robotics confronts me continuously online, to the point where I cease to keep track. In terms of military equipment there is Ember, TROPHY, and the old news predator UAV, which I was unhappy to learn now advertises [...]

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