Thursday, February 06, 2014

Why Humans Are So Screwy

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Aha!!! ... Last night I had the amusing and satisfying feeling that I was finally grokking the crux of the reason why we humans are so ...
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Monday, January 27, 2014

Hawking's new thoughts on information & chaos & black hole physics...

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Interesting new paper by Stephen Hawking, though I only half-understand it... (ok maybe 2/3 ...) http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.5761v1.pdf Basic...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Robot Toddlers and Fake AI 4 Year Olds

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Oh, the irony... At the same time as my OpenCog project is running an Indieogogo crowdfunding campaign aimed at raising funds to cr...
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Monday, June 10, 2013

Physicists Rediscover Sheldrake's Morphic Fields ... and my Morphic Pilot Wave ...

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Today Damien Broderick pointed out to me an Edge interview with physicist Lee Smolin, which led me to a fascinating article by Smolin tit...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

RIP Ray Manzarek

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What a bummer to read that Ray Manzarek has died.    I was born in 1966, and the psychedelic rock of the late 1960s and early 1970s wa...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Musing about Mental vs. Physical Energy

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Hmmm.... I was talking with my pal Gino Yu at his daughter Oneira's birthday party yesterday … and Gino was sharing some of his inte...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Quasi-Mathematical Speculations on Contraction Maps and Hypothetical Friendly Super-AIs

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While eating ramen soup with Ruiting in the Tai Po MegaMall tonight, I found myself musing about the possible use of the contraction mappi...
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013

The Dynamics of Attachment and Non-Attachment in Humans and AGIs

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A great deal of human unhappiness and ineffectiveness is rooted in what Buddhists call "attachment"… roughly definable as an ex...
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