Activity for Serban Tanasa
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Can you use an AI to shackle (control) an AI? Intro and Context (feel free to skip if TL;DR) This question does not come in isolation. It is intrinsically linked with several previous posts (Challenge of Control and Humans as Pets) that have generated some wonderful answers and great food for thought in the comments sections as well. My thinkin... (more) |
— | almost 10 years ago |
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Where to Anchor My Space Elevator Thanks to the recent discovery of handwavium "¡ filaments that can in principle be extruded to any length, we will be able to build space elevators sooner than most people would expect. The interesting question is where to put it. The first state to deploy a space elevator will likely have a signi... (more) |
— | almost 10 years ago |
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Sapience Pulsar - Could Intelligence Come in Waves? So imagine this scenario: Sapience (which I define as Human-like intelligence or better) is a relatively common occurence once a life-form is on a specific brain-arms-race path like Hominins have been for a few million years. A certain set of mutations can occur that make a dramatic difference in ov... (more) |
— | almost 10 years ago |
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Matrioshka Testing: A way to keep your AI honest (or at least guessing) I have had some time to ponder my previous question, and here's what I came up with. You take your freshly baked AI (or your destructively uploaded human), and put it in a box$^1$. As far as it can tell from inside, that's reality. Keep it there for a million subjective years, tell it to behave, an... (more) |
— | almost 10 years ago |
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How to Mimimize Air Loss in Space-Based Cities? I've hit a wall in my tale of humans attempting to escape the Singularity or a fate worse than death by running off into the depths of space. And I only have myself and my accursed hard sci-fi leanings to blame. First of all, my habitats leak like a sieve, even before getting battered by micromete... (more) |
— | almost 10 years ago |
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Realistic Future Jobs for Men and Women I'm trying to figure out realistic futuristic jobs for my characters. We're in a verge-of-singularity world, 15-25 years in the future. Convoluted neural networks and their even more awesome near-AGI successors will increasingly be able to do any physical or even intellectual service-type job better... (more) |
— | almost 10 years ago |
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Minimum brain size for consciousness? In the limit, how small can a brain get and still host an identifiably human-like consciousness? Obviously, they can be smaller than an adult human's, since children (with smaller brain volumes) and patients who lost upwards of half their brain exhibit behavior that we would consider conscious and r... (more) |
— | almost 10 years ago |
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Humans as Pets? Related, and in continuation to The Challenge of Controlling an Advanced AI. At this point in my story, I'm assuming a got-out-of-the-box-AI scenario, where no singleton (a single self-coherent dominant entity) was created, but a large number of philosophically and values-system distinct Artificial G... (more) |
— | almost 10 years ago |
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The Challenge of Controlling a Powerful AI By now, everyone is familiar with the remarkable achievements of special-purpose AIs like Deep Blue and Watson. Now, it is clear that as our accumulated knowledge of algorithmic methods and of the intricacies of human neural systems progresses, we will begin to see more and more advanced modes of art... (more) |
— | almost 10 years ago |
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