Andart
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Another lobe of Anders Sandberg's distributed brain: essays on technology, science and the human condition.en-us2014-08-11T10:01:16+01:00Andart evolves into... Andart II
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This blog is now moving to Andart II! Andart has been running on a movable type back-end for ages, and it is starting to show its age. Plus, spam made me turn off comments years ago. So it is time...Anders32014-08-11T10:01:16+01:00Monoliths... Mmm... Monoliths
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I gush about 2001: The Spark: 2001, artificial intelligence and the future of humanity The interview made me re-recognize how absolutely awesome the movie is. It is in many ways *the* movie to watch to understand what our institute tries...Anders32014-07-23T00:03:43+01:00Roadmap for physics greatness
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Gerard 't Hooft has written an excellent set of pages on How to become a GOOD Theoretical Physicist - essentially his sketch of what a person ought to know before they can actually do any relevant work in theoretical physics....Anders32014-07-20T22:55:42+01:00Panel of the Clones
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A while ago I participated in a discussion at the Hay-on-Wye philosophy festival about cloning. Now the footage is online: Planet of the Clones: The future of human cloning. Hilary Rose, Anders Sandberg, Ian Wilmut. Barnaby Martin hosts We had...Anders32014-07-10T22:58:31+01:00If nature doesn't do containment, why should I?
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Earlier this week I attended an excellent talk by Simon Wain-Hobson from the Pasteur Institute about gain of function (GOF) experiments on flu viruses. They are controversial because they involve making viruses more pathogenic or more transmissible; I have blogged...Anders32014-07-03T00:57:01+01:00Ethics of brain emulations
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My paper about brain emulation ethics is now officially out, and open access: Ethics of brain emulations. Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. Volume 26, Issue 3, 2014 Special Issue: Risks of General Artificial Intelligence In the light of...Anders32014-06-26T11:19:07+01:00What's Love Got to do With Medicalization?
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In the (so far) final installment in the long series of papers about the neuroscience of love with Julian and Brian we have arrived at Brian D Earp, Anders Sandberg, Julian Savulescu. The medicalization of love. Cambridge quarterly of healthcare...Anders32014-06-20T23:36:01+01:00Two chapters from the future
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Two author's preprints of chapters I have in upcoming books (buy the books! tell your friends! cite the chapters! :-) ) Smarter policymaking through improved collective cognition? from Anticipating 2025: A guide to the radical scenarios that lie ahead, whether...Anders32014-06-14T15:29:45+01:00Cabbage, kings, the Turing Test and good books
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I talk about the Turing Test, why the Eliza effect, deep learning plus reinforcement learning, and the future of AI: Apropos freeform interviews and discussions, here is a podcast I did with some friends about science fiction, social software, black...Anders32014-06-12T12:03:24+01:00Chatting about the Turing test
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Eugene the Turing test-beating teenbot reveals more about humans than computers - I blog at The Conversation about the recent 'success' in beating the Turing test. Actually running the Turing test is a bit like putting cats in boxes or...Anders32014-06-10T12:02:52+01:00Do we have to be good to set things right?
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I have been somewhat mystified by why some people in my libertarian network have become climate denialists. After all, they are pro-science and generally critical thinkers. Heck, I have often expressed at least climate sceptic sentiments. But yesterday Janet Radcliffe-Richards...Anders32014-06-08T12:21:51+01:00Daemon and Freedom(tm): superintelligence is more interesting than utopia
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I just finished Daemon and Freedom(tm) by Daniel Suarez. Daemon was brilliant, Freedom(tm) too earnest and closed to work. Daemon starts out as a technological murder mystery and soon evolves into a fun technothriller. What I enjoyed was the realistic...Anders32014-06-06T00:56:09+01:00Myötähäpeä and surprise shadows
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Today I learned a new Finnish word that I think we should introduce in English: Myötähäpeä. Kaj Sotala described it as "co-shame" or "shared shame": "Feeling bad as a result of seeing someone else do something that causes them to...Anders32014-06-05T14:28:41+01:00Doom x5 !
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I have a piece in The Conversation: The five biggest threats to human existence. My current list is Nuclear war Engineered pathogens Superintelligence Nanotechnology Unknown unknowns Nanotechnology is in a sense a stand-in for all technologies making it easier to...Anders32014-05-29T14:02:02+01:00Brewing up risk for the good of all of us (except the ones who are dead)
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When is it acceptable to do research that threatens to cause the disaster it seeks to limit? My conclusion is that risky experiments like gain-of-function virology or geoengineering experiments can be justified if they look likely to reduce overall risk...Anders32014-05-23T17:38:51+01:00