The Multiverse According to Ben

On a long drive to my mom's house earlier this weekend, my son Zar and I got into a long conversation about the nature of causality, whi...

I've been thinking about a new approach to computational language learning for a while, and finally found time to write it down -- see t...

I had some more ideas, working toward a general theory of general intelligence, which I wrote in a paper posted online at Dynamical Psychol...

Just some quasi-random musings that went through my head yesterday… Our society puts a fair bit of energy, these days, into cr...

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...