Tim Freeman has a paper which clarifies many of the issues that need to be solved for humans to coexist with a superhuman AI. It comes close to what we would need if we had unlimited computing power. I will try amplify on some of the criticisms of it from the sl4 mailing list.
It errs [...]
Tue, December 11, 2007 - 5:06 AM
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Book review: The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin by Keith E. Stanovich.
This book asks us to notice the conflicts between the goals our genes created us to serve and the goals that we as individuals benefit from achieving. Its viewpoint is somewhat new and unique. Little of the substance of the [...]
Sun, December 2, 2007 - 2:58 AM
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Book review: Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Bjørn Lomborg.
This book eloquently counters many popular myths about how much harm global warming is likely to cause, but is sufficiently partisan and one-sided that it will do more to polarize the debate than to resolve disagreements. Many of his criticisms of [...]
Wed, November 14, 2007 - 2:51 AM
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While there is much debate about whether we should respond to global warming by taxing CO2 emissions at $2 per ton or $140 per ton, there are countries with policies that are roughly equivalent to rewarding CO2 emissions at levels that appear to exceed $100 per ton.
I'm referring to gasoline pricing rules that keep gas [...]
Tue, November 6, 2007 - 4:32 AM
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Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill to replace patent monopoly protection for drugs with awards based in part on Quality Adjusted Life Years added by the drugs.
This would eliminate the harm due to monopoly pricing. It might also cause some research to be redirected from "me-too" drugs to more innovative drugs. But I suspect that [...]
Wed, October 31, 2007 - 4:13 AM
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