The Multiverse According to Ben

I wrote down some speculative musings on the preservations of goals in self-modifying AI systems, a couple weeks back; you can find them her...

On the AGI email list recently, someone asked about the possible importance of creating AGI systems capable of playing . Like many other qua...

I just got finished with the two-day Workshop on Machine Consciousness that Pentti Haikonen organized at Nokia Research, in Helsinki. I prob...

I did an interview recently on "The Future and You" podcast ... interested parties may, er, feast their ears at http://www.thefut...

History is a damn dim candle over a damn dark abyss -- W.S. Holt My grandfather Leo Zwell died last week at age 92, so I thought I'd wri...

This is a re-post (with light edits) of a post I made last week, that got disappeared due to some IT difficulties regarding poor communicati...

I thought you might enjoy this email that I (and some others) received this morning. It is fairly typical of its genre, but particularly am...

This is a brief addendum to a post I made a while back where I gave a casual but mathematical discussion of will and reflective awareness i...

I just returned from 2.5 weeks in the Orient ... a week in Japan, doing biz meetings, going to a virtual worlds conference, seeing an awesom...

Eureeka!! -- The Underlying Logic Unifying Quantum Theory and General Relativity, Revealed Over a Plate of Sour Fish Consumed Over South Chi...

I’ve been reading up on the iCub open-source humanoid robot lately, and I think it’s pretty exciting. Given what open source has done for...