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Where I argue to err on the side of caution - which in my book means rapid acceleration
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January 2023

An overview and preview for subscirbers
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A catastrophic or existential risk for any civilization that radically self-modifies their minds and develops AGI
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December 2022

Why large language models like ChatGPT are not conscious
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The genie is out of the bottle
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A future-proof term for a cognitive unit a mind tries to access, but is absent.
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November 2022

A term for the space of all possible experiences to be had
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From a complete description of the universe we seem to be able to exhaustively derive a totality of all facts about the universe, save for one key…
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October 2022

Panpsychism is the idea that mind is everywhere and in everything. It is the view that mind or mindlike aspects are simply features of all reality or…
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A decade ago AGI or Strong AI were terms that were mostly associated with crackpots. Those who work on the unattainable and bizarre goal of building an…
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The strength of evolution is that it doesn’t know what it’s doing. The weakness of evolution is that it doesn’t know what it’s doing. So what you end up…
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September 2022

Mental Contractions is my blog on enhancing, extending, and exploring existence. The coming decades constitute a particularly turbulent transition…
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