The Multiverse According to Ben

Earlier this year I gave a talk at Yale University titled "Ethical Issues Related to Advanced Artificial General Intelligence (A Few ...

Any sensible person with the choice of going to the polls to vote has almost surely asked themselves “Why should I bother voting when it’s i...

One of the reasons I spent 4 weeks in China this summer, organizing the First AGI Summer Schoo l and collaborating on research with my frien...

I returned home 2 weeks ago from the First AGI Summer School , which was held in the Artificial Brain Lab at Xiamen University in Xiamen, Ch...

A while ago I wrote a blog post suggesting that quantum logic should be applied more generally than to quantum physical systems ... that it ...

Infinity.... None of them will touch the light bulb at all; they'll all just sit around talking amongst themselves and waiting for some...

(This email summarizes some points I made in conversation recently with an expert in reinforcement learning and AGI. These aren't neces...

(This may seem a hackneyed topic, but there are some moderately original points near the end here, if you bear with me ...) As a card-carryi...

Is the human brain, at the levels directly relevant for analysis of cognition, best modeled as a classical or quantum system? (For instance,...

My review of the Kurzweil-biopic/futurist-think-piece documentary Transcendent Man -- which features me mouthing off for 4-5 minutes in a ...

A follow-up to my prior posts on cetacean intelligence... I thought a bit about innovative ways we might be able to communicate better with ...

This is just a brief follow-up to my last post, and a prelude to the one that will follow, which is already brewing in my brain.... In case ...