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…ing in our own work, is to develop AGI systems with explicit, hierarchically-dominated goal systems. That is: e create one or more "top goals" (we call them Ubergoals in CogPrime ) e have the system derive subgoals from these, using its own intelligence, potentially guided by e...

…id I should in early September, by the end of January I would have made $2.4 million. (Alas, I did not invest.) At any one moment, he is making a series of bets for himself and others--very much not as a workaday hedge fund, and much more as a privileged association. Money is al...

BILL WAS ONE OF ——_— View this image > National Enquirer Tellingly, many of those articles — which have notably increased in tempo in recent weeks following Roberts’ late December accusation that noted attorney Alan Dershowitz was one of the men she was forced to have sex with...

…esses, controlling a single agent, work together in such a way as to help each other be more intelligent. Typically, if one has cognitive processes that are individually susceptible to combinatorial explosions, cognitive synergy involves coupling them together in such a way that...

…w.vanityfair.com/contributors/vicky- ward> March 8, 2011, 2:30 PM "I've got a story idea for you. The rebuilding of Indonesia. Or New Orleans. Or both. Go there. I've just been. You will never think the same way about anything again." So spoke not Bill or Melinda Gates, but Ghis...

…re code. The five core developers are like Linus Torvalds of Linux. They decide what changes are made to the core code. One of the five is the lead developer, Wladimir, and one is the Chief Scientist, Gavin. > Gavin, Wladimir and Cory (an important contributing developer) were be...

…ll used pencil and paper for most things; the newly-invented mechanical cash registers were slow and could perform only one calculation for each crank of the handle. If you wanted to calculate something complex, you had to employ a computer: a person who could do mental arithmeti...

…and Development of Ethics thinking, this is a cognitive precedent to being able to reconsider an entire belief system, one that has had contractual logic built atop reflexive adherence that began in early development. If the initial moral system is viewed as positive and stable,...

more similar to each other than any one is to a human brain. What changed since we split off from our ape cousins is both the overall geometry of the brain in terms of the relative size of different components, as well as the connections both within and between these components....

…/wwiv.vanityfaircom/contnbutors/vicky- ward> March 8,2011 2:30 PM "I've got a story idea for you. The rebuilding of Indonesia. Or New Orleans. Or both. Go there. I've just been. You will never think the same way about anything again." So spoke not Bill or Melinda Gates, but Ghis...

…t’s extremely unlikely that we'd even try to move billions of humans to Mars in the first place. The analogy is a false one, however. We are already devoting huge scientific and technical resources to creating ever-more-capable AI systems. A more apt analogy would be a plan to mo...

…“male” apparatus of hinges and rods, set up to communicate with bulbous “female” fiberglass entities nearby. Whether anyone could actually map the quiddities of the program (or glean its reactionary gender theater) without reading the catalog essay is an open question. What is si...

… decorator Alberto Pinto, who has worked for Jacques Chirac and the royal families of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, there is one particularly startling oddity: a stuffed black poodle, standing atop the grand piano. “No decorator would ever tell you to do that,” Epstein brags to visito...

…e-added tax and a carbon tax — as part of a broad overhaul of the tax code, according to an administration official and one other person briefed on the process. HOUSE OVERSIGHT 014857 The value-added tax, which is popular in many other countries, would serve as a kind of national...

… carry out terrorist acts”); S.C. Res. 1377 (Nov. 12, 2001) (declaring “that acts of international terrorism constitute one of the most serious threats to international peace and security in the twenty-first century, ... that acts of international terrorism constitute a challenge...