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What do people see as the plausible ways for AGI to come into existence, in the absence of smart people specifically working on AI safety?

This essay at Edge touches on a few possible meanings for the term "group selection." Pinker argues that as a form of memetic theory it has

This book from 1930 or so (PDF) seems chiefly concerned with describing ways thinking can go wrong. The author does not seem to know much of

By what looks like popular demand on the Society for Creative Anachronism thread, I'm linking a three-part account of three roles that suppo

Kurt Gödel showed that we could write within a system of arithmetic the statement, "This statement has no proof within the system," in such

A Dr. Nigel Thomas has tried to show a logical self-contradiction in Chalmers' "Zombie World" or zombiphile argument, in a way that would co