A new article in Biology Letters shows that under some conditions in which animals appear to behave "irrationally" (by apparently failing to conform to the Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives or even the Transitivity axioms of decision theory), the animal behavior may in fact resemble utility-maximizing strategies which also appear to...

Jan 15, 201416

[Link] Will Superintelligent Machines Destroy Humanity?

A summary and review of Bostrom's Superintelligence is in the December issue of Reason magazine, and is now posted online at Reason.com.

Nov 27, 20144

The non-Independence of superficially-Irrelevant Alternatives

A new article in Biology Letters shows that under some conditions in which animals appear to behave "irrationally" (by apparently failing to conform to the Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives or even the Transitivity axioms of decision theory), the animal behavior may in fact resemble utility-maximizing strategies which also appear to...

Jan 15, 201416