The Multiverse According to Ben

I've argued in several places, e.g. here and in The Hidden Pattern , that three basic values (independent of the specifics of human cul...

Along with practical work on the OpenCog design (and a host of other research projects!), during the past few years I've written a seri...

I was recently invited to submit a paper to a forthcoming academic edited volume on the Singularity. As a first step I had to submit a...

When chatting with a friend about various government systems during a long car drive the other day (returning from New York where we were hi...

Amara Angelica pointed me to an article in IEEE Spectrum titled MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors Fascinating indeed! I'm often skept...

A few weeks ago I wrote an article for H+ Magazine about the exciting precognition results obtained by Daryl Bem at Cornell University. Rec...

It was my pleasure to briefly participate in Giulio Prisco's Turing Church Online Workshop 1 , on Saturday November 20 2010 in Teleplace...

I recently wrote a blog post about my own AI project , but it attracted a bunch of adversarial comments from folks influenced by the Singula...

Here's an off-the-wall idea that has some appeal to me ... as a long-time Transtopian fantasist and world traveler.... The desert island...

On Thursday I finished writing the last chapter of my (co-authored) two-volume book on how to create beneficial human-level AGI, Building Be...