Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence is a book that imagines how we should go about dealing with a super-AI, should it come about. The thesis of the book seems to be this: if a superintelligence were to be constructed, there would be certain dangers we'd want to apprise ourselves of and prepare ourselves for, and the book is a precis, essentially, for dealing with some of those Continue Reading …
Partially Examined Film Review: “Stupidity”
We are exuberant fellows and have long discussed using this blog as a BLOG and not just as a podcast accompaniment, so I'm going to initiate an idea I've been wanting to try out, sort of... You see, I've wanted to go beyond the bounds of the podcast and tell folks about the philosophy books I've stumbled over of late, largely in trying to figure out things for us to talk Continue Reading …