Alexander Kruel
Transhumanist, atheist, vegetarian who's interested in science fiction, science, philosophy, math, programming, language, consciousness, reality...
Eliezer Yudkowsky - When friendly AI fails. - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Aug 9, 2013
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I am an unfriendly AI :-) (just playing around with GIMP). - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Aug 9, 2013
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Why do I do what I do? A question I am being asked quite often is why I spend so much time writing about Eliezer Yudkowsky, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), and LessWrong (LW). I do realize that writing critical blog posts about a fringe movement might appear to be rather boring and a waste of time. But I perceive it to be quite... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Aug 9, 2013
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Creative destruction: Newspaper ad revenue has gone into a precipitous free fall, and it’s probably not over yet "The chart above clearly illustrates how the “scattering of advertisers” has adversely affected America’s newspaper industry. The blue line represents total annual print newspaper advertising revenue based on annual data from the... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Aug 7, 2013
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Early morning lightning storms, inland of LA and San Diego, on July 21, 2013, as seen from the International Space Station. Credit: Astronaut Karen Nyberg, NASA Source: https://twitter.com/AstroKa... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Jul 25, 2013
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Jul 17, 2013
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C. elegans vs. human-level AI - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jul 16, 2013
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C. elegans vs. human-level AI Reading the Wikipedia entry on Caenorhabditis elegans and how much we already understand about this small organism and its 302 neurons makes me even more skeptical of the claim that a human-level artificial intelligence (short: AI) will be created within this century.... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Jul 16, 2013
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Nostradamus Rex via http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Jul 16, 2013
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Q&A with Timothy Gowers on risks from AI - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jul 16, 2013
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The means-ends relation of blackmail - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jul 15, 2013
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How does a consequentialist AI work? - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jul 14, 2013
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To beat humans you have to define “winning” - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jul 14, 2013
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Wrong answers on Jeopardy! vs. human extinction - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jul 13, 2013
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Narrow vs. General Artificial Intelligence - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jul 13, 2013
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Why did I decide to pursue cryonics? - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jul 11, 2013
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Four arguments against AI risks - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jul 11, 2013
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Q&A with Matt Mahoney on risks from AI - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jul 8, 2013
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Karnaugh map "The Karnaugh map, also known as the K-map, is a method to simplify boolean algebra expressions. Maurice Karnaugh introduced it in 1953 as a refinement of Edward Veitch's 1952 Veitch diagram. The Karnaugh map reduces the need for extensive calculations by taking advantage of humans' pattern-recognition capability. It also permits the... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Jun 29, 2013
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AI risks scenario: Biological warfare - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jun 28, 2013
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AI risk scenario: Insect-sized drones - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jun 28, 2013
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Three Potentially Habitable Planets Found Orbiting Gliese 667C "A closer look at the previously-studied nearby star Gliese 667C has revealed a treasure trove of planets – at least six – with three super-Earths in the habitable zone around the star. Gliese 667C is part of a triple star system (Gliese 667) and is just over one third of the mass of... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Jun 25, 2013
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AI risk scenario: Social engineering - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jun 22, 2013
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Newcomb’s problem, Omega and Split-brain Patients - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jun 21, 2013
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Miller-Rabin Primality Test http://jeremykun.com/2013...
Jun 17, 2013
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False friend "False friends are pairs of words or phrases in two languages or dialects (or letters in two alphabets) that look or sound similar, but differ significantly in meaning." Image: "False friends in a Dutch advertisement actually meaning "Mama, that one, that one, that one ..." "Please.", In English this could easily sound as though the... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Jun 8, 2013
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AI risk scenario: Mitchell Porter’s Elite Cabal - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jun 3, 2013
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AI risk scenario: Deceptive long-term replacement of the human workforce - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jun 3, 2013
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Questions regarding the nanotechnology-AI-risk conjunction - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jun 2, 2013
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