The cryptocurrency space can provision a putative malevolent AI with discrete decentralized compute, storage, and opportunities for secure accumulation of cryptographic assets and social capital. Consequently, there might be an AI Control Trilemma: Ban further AI software development; cap hardware; criminalize crypto – pick two.
Twitter Space debate with Roko Mijic about feasibility and desirability of AI control.
Fictional short story in which an AI takes over the world by leveraging its financial dominance in the cryptocurrency space.
The Woke “Canceling” of Aubrey de Grey Portends Nothing Good either for Life Extension, or for Women in Science The field of Radical Life Extension has been going from strength. Over the past two years, timelines have moved sharply up, after having stagnated for the first decade and a half since Aubrey de Grey introduced
В течении этого века, наша с вами игра в Civilization как фракция “Россия” завершится одним из этих четырех сценариев: (1) Технологическая Сингулярность: Достижение искусственного сверхинтеллекта, технологическая сингулярность, и настоящий “конец истории.” Обсуждать что дальше – не то что бесполезно, а невозможно. (2) Биосингулярность: Технологии редактирования человеческого генома, вместе с пониманием геномике интеллекта, приведет к стремительному росту среднего
Трамп борется за Тропическую Гиперборею… извините, за Питтсбург, а не за Париж. Но фактически, все равно за Тропическую Гиперборею – то есть, за прекрасную Россию будущего. Прекрасную, и очень теплую, не вынужденной бороться с вечной мерзлотой, и способной прокормить миллиарды людей. Тем временем, кремлины выступают за Парижские Соглашения: В преддверии официального заявления президента США пресс-секретарь Кремля Дмитрий
I have managed to find 3 polls querying people on their attitudes towards radical life extension. By far the most comprehensive one is PEW’s August 2013 Living to 120 and Beyond project. The other two are a poll of CARP members, a Canadian pro-elderly advocacy group, and by Russia’s Levada Center. While PEW and Levada polled a representative sample
This conference is organized by brain health and IQ researcher Hank Pellissier, and its aim is to bring all kinds of quirky and visionary folks – “Biohackers, Neuro-Optimists, Extreme Futurists, Philosophers, Immortalist Artists, Steal-the-Singularitarians” – together in one place and have them give speeches and interact with each other and the interested public. One of the lecturers is
This Sunday I had the pleasure of meeting up with Hank Pellissier, who used to work for the IEET, a futurist/transhumanist institute, and is now a blogger-journalist and amateur researcher at the Brighter Brains blog. As one may glean from the title of that blog, his current area of major interest lies in IQ and how you
Heard of the political compass? Well, one enviro person compiled something similar for those who seriously entertain the possibility that industrial civilization will collapse. (H/t Mark Sleboda for pointing me to it.) Needless to say, the “deniers” are almost as absurd as the “rapturists.” All the business as usual scenarios lead to collapse by mid-century.
Editorial note: This article was first published at Arctic Progress in February 2011. In the next few weeks I will be reposting the best material from there. The Arctic to become a pole of global economic growth? Image credit – Scenic Reflections. Behold! Far north along the shores of the Arctic a quiver of upspringing settlements fringes
In the Japanese TV series Dennō Coil, people wear Internet-connected augmented reality glasses and interact with a world that is now split between the real and the virtual. Citizens and netizens become one. The story is set in 2026, some eleven years after the introduction of this technology. Considering that this series was first conceived of in 1997,
I am an idiosyncratic person. I support HBD, but oppose white (or any other) imperialism. My attitudes towards mainstream liberalism and conservatism is to wish a plague on both their houses. I think we’re in for a world of hurt with Limits to Growth but also buy into “cornucopian” ideas like technological singularity and transhumanism.
It is now increasingly evident that Russia’s population has settled on a small but decidedly firm upwards growth trend. I have been vindicated. According to the latest data, in the first eight months of the year births fell by 1.4% (12.5/1000 to 12.3/1000) and deaths fell by 6.2% (from 14.6/1000 to 13.7/1000) relative to the
The river of time flows on, and empires crumble, leaving behind only legend that becomes myth, while new polities arise to take their place. This process of decay and creation is going to receive a boost from “peak energy” and, above all, climate change – which will redraw the maps of power to an extent