...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.
In "Leakproofing..."
"To reiterate, only safe questions with two possible answers of even likelihood which are independently computable by people should be submitted to the AI."
Oh come ON. I can see 'independently computable', but requiring single bit responses that have been carefully balanced so we have no information to distinguish one from the other? You could always construct multiple questions to extract multiple bits, so that's no real loss; and with awareness of Bayes' theorem, getting an exact probability balance is essentially impossible on any question we'd actually care about.