The Multiverse According to Ben

This blog post is an edited version of a comment I made on Robin Hanson's recent China Ascendant post on the Overcoming Bias blog. So,...

Today (as a consequence of my role in the IEET ), I gave a brief invited talk at the National Defense University, in Washington DC, about th...

This interesting article presents data indicating that it takes around half a second for an unconscious visual percept to become conscious ...

(I usually reserve this blog for speculations on intellectual topics, but last night I had a dream that seemed sufficiently interesting to p...

I've pointed out before (and it's not my original observation) that no branch of modern science contains a notion of "cause...

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...