Yesterday, I spoke at an event organized by the America's Future Foundation on the topic of self-driving cars. Here is a summary of what I said. (Disclaimer: I do work at Google, but I have never worked on self-driving cars, and do not possess any information that isn't already public.)

The most important point is that a self-driving car ( Read more... )

"If AIs become better and cheaper than humans at EVERYTHING, humans will stop interacting with each other. Pan-human catastrophe!"

"If foreigners become better and cheaper than nationals at EVERYTHING, nationals will stop buying from each other. National catastrophe!"

Yeah, right. And if people outside your immediate family do everything ( Read more... )

Doctors are expensive. Yet most of what they do is follow a simple algorithm with lots of rules. A human aided by an expert system could do the very same thing, for cheaper!

Of course, in rich countries, the established trade unions will never let such a thing be deployed, suing whoever tries to help others with it for unlicensed use of medecine, ( Read more... )

Last month, I was thinking a lot about polyphasic sleep schedulesI didn't manage to discipline myself in such a schedule yet, and ( Read more... )

Since several friends did recommend this movie, including David Madore, and despite the gripes of Lew Rockwell, I went to watch I, Robot this weekend with my cousin ( Read more... )

Someone fnord who was interested in epistemology and whom I directed fnord to part 5 of my essay and then told about the FNORD didn't get my last joke about it. I guess I fnord won't be able to make my point through unless I make it blatantly fnord obvious. So read the following development for more illumination.
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