Upptäckte precis bloggen Accelerating future (“Transhumanism, AI, nanotechnology, and extinction risk.”). Den verkar väldigt bra, det inlägget jag fastnade för först var Answering Popular Science’s 10 Questions on the Singularity. Långt, intressant och stundtals roligt. I den posten så länkar Michael till vidare läsning, bland annat Knowability of Friendly AI som var väldigt fin läsning, och en artikel om Basic AI drives.

Några sköna citat ur Singularity-texten:

This is because we think of “machines” as things like toasters. We have no experience with machines as complex and subtle as the human mind, but because the human mind is entirely non-magical, it’s only a matter of time. You are still special even though your mind is non-magical — don’t worry.

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The author of the article writes, “Are the Id, Ego, and other elements of our unconscious the consequence of biology or a necessary component of sentience?”, in a shocking mention of Freudian psychology. Freudian psychology is not scientific… why is someone in Popular Science referring to it as fact? Has Popular Science lost it? Maybe they don’t really mean it, but seriously, drop the Freud references.