Hence also Timothy Shy’s attempts to rewrite English history and the snarls of hatred that escape him when he thinks of the defeat of the Spanish Armada. (How it sticks in his gizzard, that Spanish Armada! As though anyone cared, at this date!) Hence, even, the endless jeering at ...
TheOrthogonality Thesis– Nick Bostrom’s concept asserts that intelligence and the final goals of an AI are completely independent of each other. This has the result that mere intelligence cannot be assumed to make decisions that minimize the existential risk to humanity. We can program in as ma...
One of my rules comes from the Sanskrit proverb of the Arthashastra, a 4th century BC treatise on statecraft: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” A rule also wisely adopted at least temporarily by Romans, “Amicus meus, inimicus inimici mei”: “my friend, the enemy of my enemy...