Physical Basis for Problems

It’s important to realize the obvious: that every human problem, every malady, every concern, every evil, is at root simply a suboptimal arrangement of atoms and molecules. If this sounds quasi-spiritual, it’s because it is — for millennia, pre-scientific humans have attributed all ills to various agents — the gods, magicians, and other humans. [...]

Molecular Machinery!

It really does exist!

Should We Beg Larry King for an Interview, or Not?

In the secret, back-room Singularitarian mailing lists and discussion venues, we often ask: “More publicity good? Or more publicity bad? How much publicity is optimal?” There’s no question that our cause (building safe seed AI) has more exposure now than ever. While it can be hard, if not impossible, to distinguish references to [...]

The IEET

The IEET sometimes replicates blog posts of mine in their articles section. They do this because I said they could. I like it when they do that, because I think what I say is important and should be heard by more people. Otherwise I wouldn’t say it. You can help me [...]

A Bare Minimum for Extinction Safeguards

Say that the world’s foremost microbiology expert announced that he or she was working on a synthetic virus with the ability to wipe out all human life. Or that a space-capable country, say, the United States, decided that its new mission is to locate the largest possible near-Earth asteroid and alter its trajectory so [...]