The Multiverse According to Ben

Reading over the conversation I had (with Abram Demski) in the Comments to a prior blog post http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/20...

I had a brief but influential (for me: I'm sure he quickly forgot it) correspondence with the philosopher-of-science Paul Feyerabend whe...

A political reporter emailed me the other day asking my opinion on the role AI technology played in the recent financial crisis, and what th...

When I first learned about uncomputable numbers, I was profoundly disturbed. One of the first things you prove about uncomputable numbers, ...

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...