mikbp

Musk's behaviour has always been controversial and he's always been kind of a dick, but I don't think it is controversial at all to say that until some years ago he has been extremely net positive for society and humanity in general. However, he's behaviour and actions turned much more...

I've read the abstract of this paper, How Organisms Come to Know the World: Fundamental Limits on Artificial General Intelligence. It says: > A general example of an affordance is the use of an object in the hands of an agent. We show that it is impossible to predefine a...

Hi, has anyone in the community (or adjacents) produced a good review and/or a rebuttal of the book "Why machines will never rule the world: artificial intelligence without fear" by Landgrebe & Smith? I haven't been able to find any, the closest is thing I've found is this. The interview...

Is there anywhere an approachable (not too long, understandable by an informed lay person) list/explanation of the current understanding for what the initial conditions for an aligned AGI should/could be?

I read somewhere a comment claiming that a "water engine" (Stanley Meyer's fuel cell) is possible. Wikipedia calls it a perpetual motion machine, but a quick search indicates that the guy just claimed it used water as fuel (nothing about it producing more energy than it consumed). The thing is...

There is one thing I don't understand about probabilities: If we toss a coin, there is a 50% chance that it shows heads or tails. If we do it 20 times and all of them showed heads, there is still a 50% chance that the next one shows heads, since...