The Efficiency Mandate
Darwin’s brilliant insights are often framed in the context of survival. True enough, but there’s another aspect of the...
Category: AI
Let’s look at the logic
Ok, logic isn’t the sexiest thing going. But, when I taught logic to undergrads, I learned something very cool...
Open Letter on Autonomous Weapons
The following open letter is online at the Future of Life Institute. So far it has over 1000 signatories,...
Why Should We Care? (part 2)
(This is Part 2 of a 3-part article.) Part 1 began by considering your possible wellbeing in ten years. ...
Why Should We Care? (Part 1)
(Part 1 of a 3-part article) Your life will be radically different in ten years. You don’t know how...
Global Community of Intention
Here’s my proposal: Let’s create a virtual global community to support the long-term wellbeing of humanity and our home...
Moore’s Law
Suppose you had bought a new computer (or smartphone or tablet) on January 1, 2014. If you buy another new...
Why worry about climate change? The robots won’t mind the heat …
Follow the money. That advice, immortalized in All the President’s Men, can help unravel the baroque ambiguities of public...
Robot Love
Can robots love? At such an early point in the transition to robot culture (early 2015), it may still be...
Good Reason For Hope
Human reality in the 21st century is becoming more artificial with every passing year. That is one of the...