The Multiverse According to Ben

In the 80's I spent a lot of time in the "Q" section of various libraries, which hosted some AI books, and a lot of funky book...

I run an email discussion list on Artificial General Intelligence , which is often interesting, but lately the discussions there have been m...

I saw the documentary Religulous w/ my kids last night (well, the two who still live at home) ... it's a sort of goofball documentary i...

Some anonymous freak wrote this story, a piece of transhumanist/absurdist fantasy which includes me in a minor role ... it's childish, b...

I'm not generally a very political person ... my thinking and my life-decisions are pretty strongly focused on the "big picture...

I spent a while this weekend thinking about what might be the right approach for testing the intelligence of early-stage AGI systems that ar...

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...