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of mathematical expression. There are also thousands of ways of being violent, and equally, ways of counteracting such violence. But none of this takes away from the importance of biology, especially its role in constraining the form that these expressions take in different envir...

24 2 What Is Human-Like General Intelligence? it, we will go through some more background regarding human-like intelligence (in the rest of this chapter), philosophy of mind (in Chapter 3) and contemporary AGI architectures (in Chapter4). 2.3 Further Characterizations of Humanl...

…ding identifying the coffee machine, figuring out what the buttons do, finding the coffee in the cabinet, etc. e Story understanding — reading a story, or watching it on video, and then answering questions about what happened (including questions at various levels of abstraction...

…viduals, institutions, and societies across human history. The scientists and scholars in the Network differ in background, epistemologies, beliefs, and methods. After five years of working together, we found a common set of themes to have emerged in our work despite the differe...

…ns. I went back to school at the Conservatory myself, and I buy lots of textbooks. But I just don’t see enough of it around me. Models must simplify. Mine would end invested consumption at independence more or less. I would also model adult self-invested work as subliminal and...

To give a robust account for the practice of medicine, one must explain why sick and debilitated strangers are worthy of attention and care, and how the medical arts contribute to human flourishing. For some Americans, such accounts begin in secular moral tradition, but for most...

…putting human capital inside. I reached output = investment + human capital growth + cash flow. Here “ex post net” is understood before output and investment, so that investment means physical capital growth. (6.16) applies the growth truism to human capital. The cash flow tr...

anthropomorphism to fresh possibilities for interpretation that are especially important for understanding its role in the human spiritual traditions in modernity, as well as the controversies surrounding that role. This research proposes that a single set of psychological mechan...

…agents in order to benefit the other. There are reasons to think this approach may work in practice. First, there is abundant written and filmed information about humans doing things (and other humans reacting). Technology to build models of human preferences from this storehous...

The expected future flow we discount to present value, allowing for transfers too, is exhaust plus transfer out less transfer in. This net difference is called cash flow. That is, cash flow = exhaust + transfer out - transfer in. (3.2) That’s the logic behind the present value...

…hanical systems was tempered by his pessimism about their exploitation by authoritarian governments, such as the Soviet Union, and the tendency for democracies, such as the United States, to become more authoritarian themselves in confronting the threat of authoritarianism. What...

… Methods of Modern Authoritarians common ideologies, whether faith in Marxist revolution or ultraconservative, anticommunist reaction. As the 20th century drew to a close, the weaknesses of both communist systems and traditional dictator- ships became increasingly apparent. Fro...

… be less concerned about us-versus-them and more concerned about the rights of all sentients in the face of an emerging unprecedented diversity of minds. We should be harnessing this diversity to minimize global existential risks, like supervolcanoes and asteroids. But should we...

…or Jorge Ramos is a journalist and a news anchor. His work covers the issues that affect the 55 million Latinos in the United States and immigrants all over the world. Jorge Ramos immigrated to the United States from Mexico City, on a student visa at the age of 24. What started...

The moral component, the cultural component, the element of free will—all make the task of creating an AGI fundamentally different from any other programming task. It’s much more akin to raising a child. Unlike all present-day computer programs, an AGI has no specifiable function...