I would like to argue that the current state of affairs seems to be that companies and institutions are not able or willing to die, they stay with us as unuseful reminders of their glory days. We hold on to their constructed truths and beliefs, like a drunk person to a fence. The pinnacle of…
What kind of value structures do we have to develop to protect us from the paperclip maximizer theory? The paperclip maximizer is the canonical thought experiment showing how an artificial general intelligence, even one designed competently and without malice, could ultimately destroy humanity. First described by Bostrom (2003), a paperclip maximizer is an artificial general…
Family, friends, work, relationships and so on. Take a minute or 10 and try to imagine (even better if you would take a piece of paper and write it down) how would a week in your life look like if you could just choose one set of core values (one wicked me) and behave the…
