SIAI Canada Academic Prize for 2008
This morning I received the wonderful news that I’ve won the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence – Canada Academic Prize for 2008! The award is in “recognition of [my] efforts to improve...
View ArticleAn imitation test for moral capacity
Yudkowsky has been posting a lot on Overcoming Bias recently about his theory of metaethics. Today he posted a summary of sorts. Essentially he seems to be saying that morality is a big complex...
View ArticleLearning to predict the future
One of the things I’ve been thinking about recently is the prediction of the future. Many people really enjoy doing this and come up with all sorts of wild speculations. It’s kind of like having the...
View ArticleTick, tock, tick, tock…
I recently read about IBM’s Sequoia supercomputer that will be operational in 2011. It will perform 20 Peta FLOPS and have 1.6 Peta bytes of RAM. To put that in perspective: if it were to attempt to...
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