Is a Technological Singularity Inevitable?

Is a Technological Singularity Inevitable?

Use code ISAACARTHUR16 for up to 16 FREE MEALS + 3 Surprise Gifts across 6 HelloFresh boxes plus free shipping at https://bit.ly/3uRoKz7 As computers have improved at an accelerating rate for generations now, fears of some emergent super intelligent computer mind have...

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Sentient Planets & World Consciousnesses

Sentient Planets & World Consciousnesses

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur We often imagine that our planet might be a sentient entity - Gaia - but could something like this evolve under known science? And might a conscious world be something we might create in the...

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Brain-Computer Interfaces

Brain-Computer Interfaces

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur BCIs, Brain-Computer Interfaces, are no longer the technology of the future but of today. As this these devices improve and move from the lab to humans, what challenges and advantages will...

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What is Sentience?

What is Sentience?

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur In the future we may encounter or create minds equal to our own, smarter, or somewhere in the gap between human and animal. And yet we still barely understand what concepts like intelligence...

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Machine Overlords & Post-Discontent Societies

Machine Overlords & Post-Discontent Societies

The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur01211 Machines may help bring about a Post-Scarcity Utopia, assuming they don't take over instead, and we dream of a future that is a Post-Scarcity...

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Conscious Stellar Objects

Conscious Stellar Objects

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Ancient cultures long thought the Sun had a mind of it's own, but could life form in stars by nature or exist by artificial origins, and what would star with a mind of its own be like? Visit...

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Mind-Machine Interfaces

Mind-Machine Interfaces

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ The ability to link mind and machine has long been the realm of science fiction, but now improvements in our understanding may allow us to network brain to computer in the near future. Companies like...

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The Paperclip Maximizer

The Paperclip Maximizer

A Paperclip Maximizer is an example of artificial intelligence run amok performing a job, potentially seeking to turn all the Universe into paperclips. But it's also an example of a concept called Instrumental Convergence, where two entities with wildly different...

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Brainwashing & Mind Control

Brainwashing & Mind Control

Use my link http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "ISAAC" to 500-500 to get a free book including a copy of George Orwell's "1984" and a 30-day free trial of Audible. We often worry about the possibility of a civilization developing methods of brainwashing to...

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