Category: Simplicity

Whatever Works & Common Sense

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One thing I love about Bangkok so far, is the attitude of “whatever works” mixed with good, old-fashioned common sense.

Here are my top three favorites:

Beer or Water?

“I’m really thirsty, can I have a beer?”

“If you’re thirsty, you should drink water.”

“….”

“I’ll take a water.”

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Two options for mail: Bangkok or Other Places, genius. Why make up a long word like “International”?

safe

“Don’t believe an invitation from a stranger inviting you to the place you don’t know.”

There couldn’t have been truer words.

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We Need an Ecosystem for Artificial Intelligences

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A few months ago Elon Musk made headlines saying that Artificial Intelligence (AI) was akin to “summoning the demon”. Now Bill Gates joins Stephen Hawkings and Elon Musk in warning against the dangers of developing AI.

I believe that we need an ecosystem of AIs that can check each other, similar to the way that we have a healthy set of gut bacteria that keep bad bacteria at harmless levels.

In the same way that it is impossible to completely eradicate bad bacteria from our gut, I do not believe that human regulatory agencies can stop a rogue AI from developing.

What we can do, is design an ecosystem for AI that works in our favor. An ecosystem of pro-human AIs that experience emotions the way we do (minus the bad emotions), so that when the rogue AI’s do develop, and they will, we’ve got intelligences who want to fight for us.

As humans (as parents or ancestors to this new form of intelligence), we run the risk of becoming obsolete. The question is how we handle that risk, or face that reality.

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Why Coherence?

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It became apparent to me, in my life back on the East Coast, that the sum of my parts was not greater than the whole. In fact, sometimes some of my parts subtracted from the whole.

My mind, my body, and my livelihood were not working together. They weren’t coherent, and they were pulling each other apart.

This is the story of how I was forced to face the music, and it wasn’t that bad.

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