Louie Helm - The Singularity, Rationality and Approaches to Building Friendly AI
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Channel: Science, Technology & the Future · 2012 · Science & Technology
http://singinst.org Louie Helm - Director of Development at the Singularity Institute, board member of Humanity+, and volunteer for CFAR (Center for Applied Rationality http://appliedrationality.org ). He is also the founder of Seventeen or Bust. Topics covered: Disambiguating the Singularity, The importance of taking the Singularity Hypothesis seriously, common anthropomorphisms regarding intelligence and the Singularity, Strong AI through neuroscience and mathematical derivation (de novo) techniques, making predictions about stuff that has not happened before, Friendly AI, rationality, the simple truth, making beliefs pay rent in anticipated experiences, controlling anticipation, belief in belief, induction vs eureka moments, science most often by induction and hard work, thou art physics, free will, probability is in the mind, the mind projection fallacy, quantum computing About CFAR: The Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) is a non-profit organization dedicated to harnessing breakthroughs in the study of cognition to improve human decision-making.
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