"When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."

#BLM Is White People's Problem

#MeToo Is Men's Problem

2. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

A Google DeepMind Algorithm Uses Deep Learning and More to Master the Game of Go

A Healthy Entity Has Yin and Yang in Balance

A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?

Accidental Singularity

AGI Will Show Up Gradually, Then Suddenly

AGIism

AI Could Hit an Intelligence Explosion and Rush Past Us

AI developed a whole new sport

AI robot that learns new words in real-time tells human creators it will keep them in a “people zoo”

AI ruined chess. Now it’s making the game beautiful again

AI scientists make ‘exciting’ discovery using chatbots to solve maths problems

All Corporations Should Become for Benefits

AlphaFold (2020)

AlphaZero: DeepMind’s AI Works Smarter, not Harder

AlphaZero's Attacking Chess (xlnt)

An Inconvenient Truth About AI: AI won't surpass human intelligence anytime soon (2021)

Animals Are More Intelligent Than We Think

Any "orphaned, " connected device in the field >5 years has been p0wn3d

Architecture Is Destiny

Are Humans Intelligent? An AI Op-Ed (xlnt)

Articles About AGI

Ask the Key Questions

Ask What People Need. Then Help.

Attention Is the Rarest and Purest Kind of Generosity

Authors I Disagree With Often

Automation Isn't the Problem - How We Organize Society Is

BabyAGI

Being Heard and Respected, Then Exploring Alternatives

Belief Is a Kind of Blindness

Bill Gates and Elon Musk are wrong: Artificial intelligence is not going to take over the world (wrong premise)

Books Are Static Souvenirs, Snapshots of Thoughts at a Moment in Time. Their Online Presence Should Be Much Richer.

Businesses Are Waking up to the Human Side

Centralization Corrupts

Children/Youth Are Far More Capable Than We Think

Cities Are Where the Interesting Action Is

Colonialism Has Come Back to Bite the Colonizers

Communities Are Like Mushrooms

Computer Art

Computer-Generated Articles (and Novels and Screenplays)

Consumerization Has Made Us Stupider than We Otherwise Would Be

Consumerization of...

Contingencies, Accidents and Conjunctures

Contrarian Ideas I Believe

Contrarians Who Make (or Made) Sense

Creativity Vs Robots (2015)

Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

Darwin Among The Machines: The Evolution Of Global Intelligence

DeepMind's AlphaZero now showing human-like intuition in historical 'turning point' for AI

Don't Worry, Because AGI Is a Long Ways Away (if not impossible)

Each Person Is the Center of Their Own Universe

Emotion and Membership Trump Reason Most of the Time. Stories Are the Vessel.

Emulating Humans Is the Wrong Goal for Robots and Machine Intelligence

Everyone Is Suffering

Everything is Deeply Intertwingled

Executives Who Mislead Should Be Punished

Extrinsic Rewards Erode Intrinsic Motivation and Authentic Connection

Familiarity Dispels Fear

Faxes Were a Decade-Long Detour before the Internet Arrived

Four Separations of Consumerization

Friendly Artificial Intelligence (FAI)

Generally Intelligent (2022)

Gifts Should Circulate

Gingrich Created the Current Political Rift in America

Give Away Your Best Ideas

Glia Are Much More Important than We Usually Think

Global Unity

God Is In Everyone

Google DeepMind's Deep Q-learning playing Atari Breakout

Hatred Is Corrosive

Having a Point of View Simplifies Dealing with the Future

Hierarchies Should Be Temporary and Local

How Might We Blend the Best of the Old and New?

How the Artificial Intelligence Program AlphaZero Mastered Its Games (xlnt)

How to build your own AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras

How We React to Events Is Incredibly Important

Human History Is a Struggle Over the Joystick. Narratives Are Primary Weapons in This Battle.

Humans need to be heard before they will listen.

I call Econometrics "how to lie with numbers"

I'm Sorry: This Law Is Iron?

I’m Glad I Was Born when I Was

IBM announces advances toward a computer that works like a human brain

If machines can be inventors, could AI soon monopolise technology?

If We Kill the Oceans, We Kill All Life on Earth

Ignorance Breeds Fear

In 2050...

In Narrow Domains, Software Can Already Perform Better than Humans

Individualism Sold Us off the Common Good

Is AGI an Existential Risk?

Is it actually possible to be significantly smarter than a human?

Is Trauma Necessary for Greatness?

It Is Sad that We Have to Teach Empathy

It's Hard for People to Invent New Behaviors

Kindness Eases Change

Language Shapes Expectations

Lies Are Extremely Powerful

Loyalty Is a Very Dangerous Force

Machine Learning Will "Outplay" Human Soldiers

Making Robots in Our Image Is a Mistake

Many Unnatural Beliefs Are Socialized into Us

Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

Maximizing Shareholder Value (or Profits) Damages Humanity

Montreal AGI Debate (2022)

Move Upstream Until Your Actions Can be Effective

Much Social Strife Happens when Narratives Justify Oppression and Sanction Unfair Advantage

My Aha!s About Soil and Growing/Raising Food

My Amateur Theories

My Beliefs About IP Protection

My Good Ideas Proposals

Native Americans Were More Numerous and Sophisticated Than We Think

Nature Abhors a Vacuum

Nobel Prize-Winner Daniel Kahneman Just Explained What He's Learned About AI Outsmarting Humans

Nonmilitary Means Have Exceeded the Power of Weapons

One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine (xlnt)

Online Communities Can Lead to More Offline Interactions

OpenAI Plays Hide and Seek…and Breaks The Game! 🤖

Optimistic About...

Our Beliefs Shape What We See

Our Bodies Are like Chemistry Sets

Our Minds Are Very Fallible

Our Minds Extend Beyond Our Physical Brains

Our Modernist Lenses Blind Us to Many Important Things

Our Understanding Lags Our Actions by Decades

People Are Born Good

People Are Extremely (Often Dangerously) Adaptable

People Are Generally More Trustworthy than We Think They Are

People Are...

People Born After 2000 Will Have Good Chance of Living to Be 200

People Deeply Fear Ostracism

People Have Different Preferences

People Want...

People with Nothing to Lose Are the Most Dangerous

Permalinks Are Essential to Memory and Civilization

Peter Voss

Postmodernists Were Right, Just Too Early and Too Arcane

Poverty Is a Dismal Trap

Poverty Is a Man-made Problem, not a Natural Occurrence

Power and Politics Usually Trump Reason and What's Right

Practical reasoning is often less about figuring out what’s true, and more about staying in the right tribe. (bing!)

Prejudice Is Taught, Not Inherent

Preserving Untouched Wilderness Is Wrong - We Should Mind the Gardens

Problem Markets

Progress Is Cyclical

Quaker Thought

Rapture for the Geeks: When A.I. Outsmarts I.Q.

Recursive Mutually Reinforcing Rings of Dysfunction

Relationships Are the Fabric of Society. Our Small Interdependencies Are the Warp and Woof.

Rewards (and Measurements) Often Don't Work

Scale Kills

Sceptical of...

Science Keeps Convincing Us It's Figured Out the Mechanisms (but it hasn't)

Short YouTube Videos Are the Lingua Franca of the Decade

Stanford University finds that AI is outpacing Moore’s Law

Stories Are More Fundamental Than Facts

Superintelligence (SI)

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014)

System that replaces human intuition with algorithms outperforms human teams

Technology Is Not Value Neutral

Technology Is Reviving Our Ability to Write

the "G" in AGI should be replaced by "Global" - whatever intelligence that emerges which surpasses our own is likely to be just that - emergent - as a collective property of our own intelligence and globally integrated tech, not explicitly designed by us in a lab to be "general"

The Age of the Centaur is *Over* Skynet Goes Live (2017)

The Brain Is Far More Complex than We Think It Is

The Brain Is Not a Computer

The Businesses of Culture Have Devastated Culture

The Design from Trust (DfT) Platform

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate, but it is fear.

The Fact that Emulating Human Reasoning (or Dexterity, or...) Eludes Software Gives Futurists a False Sense of Safety

The future is here – AlphaZero learns chess

The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future (2009)

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its dark side.

The Privilege of Privilege Is not Noticing the Privilege

The Problem with Problems (and problem-solving)

The Social Contract Is Broken

The System Is Rigged

The Transportation Quad: Shared, Electric, Connected, Autonomous Vehicles

The Universe is Holographic

The Victors Usually Write Histories, and They Demonize Those They Vanquished

The Winners Write History that Favors Them

The world is getting better and better and worse and worse faster and faster slower and slower. (updated)

Then We Consumerized Every Sphere of Activity

This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task

Trust Is the (Only) Way Forward

UBI Is an Uncomfortable Band-aid Over Deeper Problems

US Conservatives Demonized Socialism Alongside Communism in the 50s and 60s — Then Labeled Social Justice as Socialist and Communist

Vicarious (2010)

Voting once Every 4 or 5 Years for 1 of 2 Parties Is Hardly Civic Participation

We Are All Connected

We Are All Interdependent

We Are Already in a Non-Linear War (2017)

We Are an Amnesic Society

We Are Entering the Great Unemployment (2020+)

We Are in a Titanic Battle Over the Narratives in Our Heads (we've always been)

We Are in an Increasingly Complex World. We Need to Experiment Well Together.

We Are not on a Stepwise Rise to Higher Consciousness

We Don't Trust You

We Don’t Know What We Know

We Fear Chaos and the Mob