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You are unlikely to see me posting here again, after today. There is a saying here that politics is the mind-killer. My heretical realizatio

This is part of a semi-monthly reading group on Eliezer Yudkowsky's ebook, Rationality: From AI to Zombies. For more information about the g

This is part of a semi-monthly reading group on Eliezer Yudkowsky's ebook, Rationality: From AI to Zombies. For more information about the g

Update: When I posted this announcement I remarkably failed to make the connection that the April 15th is tax day here in the US, and as a p

Assume you had access to 1. a self-improving artificial general intelligence (AGI) of at least human-capability or better; and 2. a lie

The Feynman lectures on physics are now available to read online for free. This is a classic resource for not just learning physics also but

Ben Goertzel has made available a pre-print copy of his book Engineering General Intelligence (Vol1, Vol2). The first volume is basically th

seL4 is the world's first (and only?) operating-system kernel with an end-to-end proof of implementation correctness and security enforcemen

Max Tegmark publishes a preprint of a paper arguing from physical principles that consciousness is “what information processing feels like f

NPR reports on a study giving volprioc acid to adults and training them on pitch (singing): Hensch is studying a drug which might allow a