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Audio from Eliezer's talk at the Oxford Transhumanists

8 Post author: alexflint 29 March 2011 09:31PM

In January we hosted Eliezer at an Oxford Transhumanists meeting. He spoke about why AI is such an incredibly consequential consideration, over and above other technologies. This will not be new material for regular lesswrong readers. The recordings from Eliezer's talk, along with previous talks, are available at http://groupspaces.com/oxfordtranshumanists/pages/past-talks.

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Comment author: lukeprog 30 March 2011 05:50:08AM 5 points [-]

At 5:56, Eliezer says the mind projection fallacy is known to philosophy students as "humane projectivism." I've never heard of that... perhaps "Humean projectivism" was intended? Hume's famous quote on this is:

Tis a common observation, that the mind has a great propensity to spread itself on external objects, and to conjoin with them any internal impressions, which they occasion, and which always make their appearance at the same time that these objects discover themselves to the senses.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 March 2011 10:54:25PM 2 points [-]

Humean, yep.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 30 March 2011 10:54:46AM 2 points [-]

Humean.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 02 April 2011 02:04:26AM 0 points [-]

Aubrey De Grey's talk is good too. Unfortunately he makes a lot of use of a powerpoint I can't see.

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