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- Location:
- Worcestershire, England
- About Me:
- I am a student studying mathematics at the university of cambridge, my main interest is in Artificial Intelligence. I suffer from Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, so I'm currently taking time out of my studies. Having a chronically malfunctioning body certainly sells the idea of nanomedicine and/or uploading...
- Areas of interest:
- Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Mathematics: "The real progress that needs to happen is progress in communication and information, progress in knowledge and intelligence and progress in morality and purpose. These are the things that I like to work on."
- Area(s) of expertise/knowledge:
- Mathematics, Logic, Set theory, Category theory, Quantum Information Science, Physics
Roko's Blog
Is transhumanism a “Religion”?
At its best, life can be great: I’m thinking of my first kiss, but life is seldom this good - often it is crowded with minor and sometimes major personal disasters; most people believe that their lives will end in the ultimate tragedy – their own
death ... [continue reading ->]
Posted on January 17th, 2008 at 4:23pm —
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Try, just try, to imagine a better world
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New blog - transhumangoodness.blogspot.com
I've just started a shiny new blog called Transhuman Goodness, I like to talk about transhumanist issues, with a focus on ethics, AI and mathematics.
Here's my most recent post:-
Deathism vs. Battered Person Syndrome
Over the weekend a striking analogy hi… Continue
Posted on July 18th, 2007 at 11:30am —
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Is transhumanism compatible with religion?
The big religions that we are familiar with (Islam, Christianity) basically say that humans are sinful, inferior beings, and that without god to help us out and show us what to do, we are doomed. They go even furthe… Continue
Posted on June 5th, 2007 at 11:41am —
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The Power of God
*** Seems like an odd post coming from a committed atheist like me, right? Surely I, like you, think that religion is an outdated class of memes that will soon be blasted away by the penetrating logic of rational
atheism? Think again people. Religion is virulent and philosophically strong,
and we, as rational people, need to wake up to its strengths and mend our own
philosophical weaknesses ***
I've been thinking about the continued power and influence of the var…
Posted on May 19th, 2007 at 12:46am —
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I think you might want to check them for correctness, because if that's supposed to be the Japanese "ai" for "passionate love" (a cunning pun on artificial intelligence, I must commend you for great awesomeness!) I think the bottom part is different.
http://www.tinfinger.com/images/kanji_ai.gif
SL is made out to be this free - 'spirit-of-the-internet' sort of thing, but you have to pay (cash is called Lindons) for half-decent clothes / skins.
SL is ok, but I'm a little worried about the many sex parts - I'm not sure what the legal implications are and I certainly don't want to be associated with any illegal sites / materials.
As for the ogre-creature - I thought it would be cool to have something different. Most people have avatars that look more or less like ordinary people, but you do get a few giant flying ducks and fox-people.
Of course there are a fair few other people all working on AI. I'm working on AI, or at least will be when I start a PhD.
I think any predictions about when AI will be succesful should come with very big error bars, because I think that AI depends on conceptual and mathematical advances. It's a bit like trying to predict in advance when someone like Isaac Newton would simultaneously invent mechanics and calculus; it could have happened any time after the greeks, but it actually happend circa 1690. I think AI will be the same - perhaps a lone individual or a small group will have some brilliant insight, invent a new field of mathematics and write an AI all within a few months. The rest of the world won't know about it until afterwards.
Anyway, nice to see another British person on here!
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