Singularity

As Rajiv returned home in the dark, he remembered earlier walks throughout his life. Spend long enough on the road and you will inevitably see some things. Sometimes, the sky could appear smoother and therefore more artificial than the messy constructions of mankind. One night he had looked up and seen…

Rajiv had always been fascinated by lucid dreaming. He wanted to escape into a less boring reality inside his head. Allegedly, the way to do that involved “reality testing”. When awake, you had to constantly ask yourself if you were dreaming right now. Eventually, you would ask yourself that question…

This is the third and final post in my “Sentient AI” series, inspired by Google engineer Blake Lemoine’s claim that an AI has become sentient in his estimation. In my first post in the series, I gave an overview of the claim made by Lemoine, and provided a primer for…

In the beginning of the Cosmos, all was at a single point. Then, the great burgeoning. To all horizons the Cosmos expanded, birthing luminance and the void; the hot and the cold; and all of the stars of the firmament with all of their incalculable variations. Then the Cosmos birthed…

Cars raced by in gusts of wind. This could be anywhere on Earth really. He would remember little of the walk itself, as the important ideas percolated in his head. At first, Rajiv had thought the “Technological Singularity” a dumb idea. In reality machines were STUPID. The clearest example was…

Before the beginning, there was almost nothing. The strangest thing about the last weeks before the Singularity was that the world was becoming more boring. With no major news stories for a while, time itself seemed to be slowing. Only a few people argued the world seemed unreal; fake even. …

What do we value most? For the first time, an artificial intelligence (AI) seems to have persuaded a human that it should not be killed[1]. Of course, a program is not really “dead” until you erase all its copies, but Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google, declared that the AI…