The Multiverse According to Ben

A former college classmate of my son's, researching a magazine article on cognitive enhancement, just emailed me asking my opinion on fu...

(... plus some semi-related AGI musings at the end!) On July 27 2010, PNAS published a paper entitled "Network architecture of the long...

This post co-authored by Ben Goertzel and Jared Wigmore Here we sketch a possible explanation for the well-known difficulty of measuring int...

In a discussion on the AGI email discussion list recently, some folks were arguing that Moore's Law and associated exponential accelerat...

This is a bit of a deviation from my usual topics, but I've been thinking a bit about economic development in various countries around t...

Someone asked me recently about Frank Tipler's book The Physics of Immortality . This was my reply: Yeah, I read that book many years...

I found this perplexing email in my inbox just now... From: Prime Intellect < prime @opencog.org > Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:58 PM...

This interview of me was conducted by Mads Mastrup (aka Heimdall) for the Danish website Transhumanisten . It took place vi...

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...