The Multiverse According to Ben

After I wrote my last blog post reacting to Alex Knapp's critique of Ray Kurzweil 's predictive accuracy, Ray Kurzweil wrote h i...

Note: there was a followup blog post to this one , presenting some complementary views that I also hold, and linking to some more recent com...

It occurred to me yesterday that the world possesses some very powerful intelligent organisms that are directly and clearly opposed to the S...

In response to some conversation on an AGI mailing list today, I started musing about the relationship between prediction, reward and intel...

This brief post is an afterthought to the just-previous post about the nature of reality. As a side point in that post, I observed that one ...

Here follow some philosophical musings, pursued by my rambling mind one evening during the Xmas / New years interval.... I inflicted these ...

In a recent thread on the AGI email list, Matt Mahoney pressed me regarding my high-level goals as an AGI researcher, and a leader of the ...

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...