Navigating the Intelligence Explosion (with Fin Moorhouse)
Watch now | Explosive technological progress, the "grand challenges" on the path to superintelligence, space expansion, and the ethics and politics of artificial minds
Conspicuous Cognition
Writer. Academic philosopher. Writing about philosophy, psychology, evolution, politics, artificial intelligence, and more.
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The Social Roots of Delusions
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We Are Stuck With Human Nature, Not Human Ignorance
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Robert Wright on AI as humanity’s “God Test”: AI progress, superintelligence, the US-China race, global coordination, evolution’s purpose, and consciousness.
How Tribes Construct Rival Realities
Henry Nowak, George Floyd, and the hidden interpretive machinery that drives political conflict.
What If Artificial Intelligence Progress Explodes? (with Benjamin Todd)
Benjamin Todd on whether transformative AI is only a few years away, the feedback loops that could compress decades of progress into months, and how to navigate the transition to a post-AGI society.
Academics Must Wake Up on AI (with Alexander Kustov)
Is AI already better at many research tasks than humans? And if so, is this a reflection of how good AI is, or how bad much existing research is?
In Europe, There Is No Simple Immigration-Crime Story
Here are some statements that you might have heard at different times and in different venues concerning immigrants and crime in Europe: