Journal of Consciousness Studies issue on the Singularity

lukeprog

...has finally been published.

Contents:

Uziel Awret - Introduction
Susan Blackmore - She Won’t Be Me
Damien Broderick - Terrible Angels: The Singularity and Science Fiction
Barry Dainton - On Singularities and Simulations
Daniel Dennett - The Mystery of David Chalmers
Ben Goertzel - Should Humanity Build a Global AI Nanny to Delay the Singularity Until It’s Better Understood?
Susan Greenfield - The Singularity: Commentary on David Chalmers
Robin Hanson - Meet the New Conflict, Same as the Old Conflict
Francis Heylighen - Brain in a Vat Cannot Break Out
Marcus Hutter - Can Intelligence Explode?
Drew McDermott - Response to ‘The Singularity’ by David Chalmers [this link is a McDermott-corrected version, and therefore preferred to the version that was published in JCS]
Jurgen Schmidhuber - Philosophers & Futurists, Catch Up!
Frank Tipler - Inevitable Existence and Inevitable Goodness of the Singularity
Roman Yampolskiy - Leakproofing the Singularity: Artificial Intelligence Confinement Problem

The issue consists of responses to Chalmers (2010). Future volumes will contain additional articles from Shulman & Bostrom, Igor Aleksander, Richard Brown, Ray Kurzweil, Pamela McCorduck, Chris Nunn, Arkady Plotnitsky, Jesse Prinz, Susan Schneider, Murray Shanahan, Burt Voorhees, and a response from Chalmers.

McDermott's chapter should be supplemented with this, which he says he didn't have space for in his JCS article.

...has finally been published.

Contents:

Uziel Awret - Introduction
Susan Blackmore - She Won’t Be Me
Damien Broderick - Terrible Angels: The Singularity and Science Fiction
Barry Dainton - On Singularities and Simulations
Daniel Dennett - The Mystery of David Chalmers
Ben Goertzel - Should Humanity Build a Global AI Nanny to Delay the Singularity Until It’s Better Understood?
Susan Greenfield - The Singularity: Commentary on David Chalmers
Robin Hanson - Meet the New Conflict, Same as the Old Conflict
Francis Heylighen - Brain in a Vat Cannot Break Out
Marcus Hutter - Can Intelligence Explode?
Drew McDermott - Response to ‘The Singularity’ by David Chalmers [this link is a McDermott-corrected version, and therefore preferred to the version that was published in JCS]
Jurgen Schmidhuber - Philosophers & Futurists, Catch Up!
Frank Tipler - Inevitable Existence and Inevitable Goodness of the Singularity
Roman Yampolskiy - Leakproofing the Singularity: Artificial Intelligence Confinement Problem

McDermott's chapter should be supplemented with this, which he says he didn't have space for in his JCS article.

Argh.

Also, this makes me wonder if the SIAI's intention to publish in philosophy journals is such a good idea. Presumably part of the point was for them to gain status by being associated with respected academic thinkers. But this isn't really the kind of thinking anyone would want to be associated with...

Someone think the visibility for philosophers have pratically impact for the solution of technical problems? Apparently who can possibly cause some harm in the near time are AI researchs, but much of these people are scalating Internet flux or working on their own projects.

Gaining visibility is a good thing when what's needed is social acceptance, or when is necessary more people to solution a problem. Publishing in peer reviews (philosophical)journals can give more scholars to the cause, but more people caring about AI don't mean a good thing per se.

27gwern14y

The way I look at it, it's 'if such can survive peer review, what do people make of things whose authors either did not try to pass peer review or could not pass peer review? They probably think pretty poorly of them.'

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