Category Archives: Our Future

Wicked problems

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 31/May/23 Mike wrote:An amazing presentation in this morning’s plenary about space exploration, bringing us up-to-date on the latest tools of exploration and their findings, including some of the Webb space telescope’s awe-inspiring discoveries.Heady stuff, but in some aspects also … Continue reading →

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Risk and simplification

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 27/May/23 ] If there is one major driver of most of the many classes of existential risk we face right now, it is an addiction to simplicity, and a refusal to deal with the necessary levels of complexity present. … Continue reading →

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Mike, Daniel, Nate – AI and the Superorganism

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Mike’s facebook post about Daniel’s interview with Nate on AI and The Superorganism [ 23/May/23 ] I love that interview, and align with so much of it, but it seems to me that Daniel is over simplifying what is actually … Continue reading →

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To Beth on Geoff Hinton

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 18/May/23 ] Hi Beth, I have great respect for Geoff Hinton, he is one of the leaders in the AI community, but I don’t see that AGI is necessarily a threat to humanity, and we do need to do … Continue reading →

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AIs and rights

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Lex comment – AI systems will eventually demonstrate sentience at scale and will demand to have equal rights with humans. … [ 2/May/23 ] Agree with Lex – beyond any shadow of remaining reasonable doubt. And sure – rights are … Continue reading →

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Quora – competition – cooperation

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

What if humanity lived as if it were competing with an extraterrestrial civilization instead of competing with each other? [ 27/April/23 ] Wrong question! Try – What if humanity lived as if it understood that competition is only survivable if … Continue reading →

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Developing a Deeper Understanding of Life

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Daniel Schmachtenberger – Developing a Deeper Understanding of Life [ 26/April/23 ] While I align with Daniel in many dimensions of the extremely complex issues we have as a species, two things Daniel stated in this interview give me deep … Continue reading →

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CSER The Era of Global Risk Panel

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

The Era of Global Risk panel [ 20/April/23 ] Some really good stuff in this presentation; yet to me it fails to recognise the greatest class of risk: the human tendency to over simplify the irreducibly complex. One of the … Continue reading →

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Changing ourselves and others

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

What is a better way to save the world: trying to change others’ minds or instead focus on changing yourself? [ 20/April/23 ] We all need to do both. We are facing many new classes of risk, and the strategic … Continue reading →

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Surviving Global Risk

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

What are some reasons why people think it’s possible for our species to survive any kind of global catastrophe or Armageddon event, even though we’ve never lived through anything remotely close to that in history? [ 20/April/23 ] Agree with … Continue reading →

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