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There are some not well known risks associated with the program of SETI—the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. One of them is the scenario of possible vulnerability from downloading hostile AI with “virus-style” behavior. The proportion of dangerous ET-signals to harmless ones can be dangerously high because of selection effects and evolutionary pressure. Alexey Turchin was born in Moscow, Russia in 1973. Alexey studied Physics and Art History at Moscow State University and actively participated in the Russian Transhumanist Movement. He has translated many foreign Transhumanist works into Russian, including N. Bostrom and E.Yudkowsky. He is an expert in Global Risks and wrote the book “Structure of the Global Catastrophe: Risks of Human Extinction in the XXI Century,” as well as several articles on the topic. Since 2010, he has worked at Science Longer Life where he is writing a book on futurology.
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There are some not well known risks associated with the program of SETI—the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. One of them is the scenario of possible vulnerability from downloading hostile AI with “virus-style” behavior. The proportion of dangerous ET-signals to harmless ones can be dangerously high because of selection effects and evolutionary pressure.
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This work applies a philosophy (of literature)-aided information science method to discuss how Homer’s Odyssey persists as a literary imaginary to help us think through potential futures of human-AI flourishing as rapid automation continues to impact humanity. The intensity of the human-AI relation is likely to increase, which invites thought leadership to steward the transition to a potential AI abundance economy with fulfilling human-technology collaboration.
The shipbuilding-seafaring-advanced civilization progression in The Odyssey identifies that the human-AI relation is not one of the labor-identity-crisis of “robots stealing our jobs,” but rather one of the more difficult challenge of envisioning who we can be in the new larger world of human-AI partnership addressing a larger set of planetary-scale problems. Towards this new configuration of human-AI relation, the longer-term may hold radically different notions of identity, as we become physical-virtual hybrids, augmented post-disease entities in the health-faring, space-civilizing, energy-marshalling post-scarcity cultures of the future.
Ethics for the machines altitude software
Will the machines save us or kill us all? – that is the question. While many are thrilled with the latest AI
breakthroughs and dream of a shinning AI-powered world, others, like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and the late
and legendary Stephen Hawking, expressed concerns about the evolution of the machines and warned about an
apocalyptic future.
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Quantum Neuroscience: CRISPR for Alzheimer’s, Connectomes & Quantum BCIs
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Superintelligence: how afraid should we be?
Superintelligence: How afraid should we be? Presentation by David Wood at the Computational Intelligence Unconference UK, 26th July 2014. Reviews ideas in three recent books: Superintelligence, by Nick Bostrom; Our Final Invention, by James Barrat; and Intelligence Unbound, edited by Russell Blackford and Damien Broderick.
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Extreme Simulation Scenarios
Presentation given by Amon Tywman, DPhil, to UKH+, 11th July 2009.
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Kim Solez Singularity explained and promoted winter 2014
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Possibly the most important lesson we have learned after 60 years of AI research is that what seemed to be very difficult to achieve, such as accurate medical diagnosis to playing chess at the level of a Grand Master, turned out to be relatively easy whereas what seemed easy, such as visual object recognition or deep language understanding, turned out to be extremely difficult. In my talk I will try to explain the reasons for this apparent contradiction by briefly reviewing the past and present of AI and projecting it into the near future.
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras is Research Professor of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the CSIC. Technical Engineer EE (Electrical Engineering) from the Technical Engineering School of Mondragón (Spain) in 1973. Master of Sciences in Automatic Control from the University of Toulouse III (France) in 1974, Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Toulouse III (France), in 1977, with a thesis in Robotics (done at LAAS, CNRS). Master of Science in Engineering (ComputerScience) from the University of California at Berkeley (USA) in 1979. Ph.D. in Computer Science, from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain) in 1981.
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On war, by General Carl von Clausewitz
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Get smart a look at the current relationship between hollywood and the cia
Government agencies have long employed entertainment industry liaisons to work with Hollywood in order to improve their public image. For instance, the Federal Bureau of Investigation established its entertainment office in the 1930s and has used its influence to bolster the image of the bureau in radio programs, films and television shows such as G-Men (1935), The Untouchables (1959–1963), The FBI Story (1959), and The F.B.I. (1965–1979). In 1947, the Department of Defense established its first entertainment industry liaison, and now, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Department of Homeland Security, the Secret Service, and the US Coast Guard all have Motion Picture and Television Offices or official assistants to the media on their payroll. Even government centers are now working with Tinsel Town, as evidenced by Hollywood, Health, and Society—a program associated with the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Norman Lear Center and funded in part by the Center for Disease Control and the National Institute of Health to provide the entertainment industry with information for health-related story lines
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The Search for the Manchurian Candidate:
Marks' award-winning 1979 book, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate describes a wide range of CIA activities during the Cold War, including unethical drug experiments in the context of a mind-control and chemical interrogation research program. The book is based on 15,000 pages of CIA documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and many interviews, including those with retired members of the psychological division of the CIA, and the book describes some of the work of psychologists in this effort with a whole chapter on the Personality Assessment System.
A 'Manchurian Candidate' is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. In this book, former State Department officer John Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in mind control. His curiosity first aroused by information on a puzzling suicide. Marks worked from thousands of pages of newly released documents as well as interviews and behavioral science studies, producing a book that 'accomplished what two Senate committees could not' (Senator Edward Kennedy).
Matter, mind and higher dimensions – Bernard Carr
Prof Bernard Carr
Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy
School of Physics and Astronomy
Queen Mary, University of London
Astronomer and mathematician Bernard Carr theorizes that many of the phenomena we experience but cannot explain within the physical laws of this dimension actually occur in other dimensions.
Albert Einstein stated that there are at least four dimensions. The fourth dimension is time, or spacetime, since Einstein said space and time cannot be separated. In modern physics, theories about the existence of up to 11 dimensions and the possibility of more have gained traction.
Carr, a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Queen Mary University of London, says our consciousness interacts with another dimension. Furthermore, the multi-dimensional universe he envisions has a hierarchical structure. We are at the lowest-level dimension.
“The model resolves well-known philosophical problems concerning the relationship between matter and mind, elucidates the nature of time, and provides an ontological framework for the interpretation of phenomena such as apparitions, OBEs [out-of-body experiences], NDEs [near-death-experiences], and dreams,” he wrote in a conference abstract.
Carr reasons that our physical sensors only show us a 3-dimensional universe, though there are actually at least four dimensions. What exists in the higher dimensions are entities we cannot touch with our physical sensors. He said that such entities must still have a type of space to exist in.
“The only non-physical entities in the universe of which we have any experience are mental ones, and … the existence of paranormal phenomena suggests that mental entities have to exist in some sort of space,” Carr wrote.
The other-dimensional space we enter in dreams overlaps with the space where memory exists. Carr says telepathy signals a communal mental space and clairvoyance also contains a physical space. “Non-physical percepts have attributes of externality,” he wrote in his book “Matter, Mind, and Higher Dimensions.”
He builds on previous theories, including the Kaluza–Klein theory, which unifies the fundamental forces of gravitation and electromagnetism. The Kaluza–Klein theory also envisions a 5-dimensional space.
In “M-theory,” there are 11 dimensions. In superstring theory, there are 10. Carr understands this as a 4-dimensional “external” space—meaning these are the four dimensions in Einstein’s relativity theory—and a 6- or 7-dimensional “internal” space—meaning these dimensions relate to psychic and other “intangible” phenomena.
Superinteligência artificial e a singularidade tecnológica
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pela primeira vez, em termos reais, a questão de uma tecnologia ser capaz de efetivamente “posicionar-se”
contra a humanidade, com conseqüências imprevisíveis. Torna-se então necessário ampliar o debate em
torno do tema para garantir ética e segurança nos rumos futuros do seu desenvolvimento.
The life twist study an independent report commissioned by american express
In the last decade, American society has undergone
a transformation brought on by a world of accelerated
change. This has been exacerbated by a recession,
increased global conflict, political tension and most
of all, the technological revolution. All of these factors
have altered our nation’s cultural and social views and
called into question one of the most basic American
ideals: our definition of success and individuals’
aspirations when seeking fulfillment.
For more than a century, American Express has
reflected society’s hallmarks of achievement, and
enabled its Cardmembers to attain the attributes of
success. Recognizing a shift in the life priorities and
aspirations of its Cardmembers, American Express
commissioned The Futures Company to explore the
evolution of success and what it means today.
The benefits of playing video games amp a0034857
While one widely held view maintains playing video games is intellectually lazy, such play actually may strengthen a range of cognitive skills such as spatial navigation, reasoning, memory and perception, according to several studies reviewed in the article. This is particularly true for shooter video games that are often violent, the authors said. A 2013 meta-analysis found that playing shooter video games improved a player’s capacity to think about objects in three dimensions, just as well as academic courses to enhance these same skills, according to the study. “This has critical implications for education and career development, as previous research has established the power of spatial skills for achievement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics,” Granic said. This enhanced thinking was not found with playing other types of video games, such as puzzles or role-playing games.
Playing video games may also help children develop problem-solving skills, the authors said. The more adolescents reported playing strategic video games, such as role-playing games, the more they improved in problem solving and school grades the following year, according to a long-term study published in 2013. Children’s creativity was also enhanced by playing any kind of video game, including violent games, but not when the children used other forms of technology, such as a computer or cell phone, other research revealed.
Affection for certainty
Edward Frenkel, professor of mathematics at California
Berkley, authored Love and Math, part biography part
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the field of a unified theory of mathematics (sometimes
called the Langlands program). He sat down with physicist,
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The revolution after next
As the 21st Century dawns, warfare is in the midst of revolutionary change. Information Age warfare characterized by knowledge, speed, and precision is slowly supplanting Industrial Age war and its reliance on mass. The advent of precision firepower is but the first tremor of this tectonic shift. As it reverberates around the globe, the Precision Firepower Military Technical Revolution will dramatically increase the lethality and reach of defensive fires. Unless the means
for offensive maneuver adapt to overcome the greatly enhanced power of the defense, future soldiers will face stalemate and indecision much like their forefathers confronted in 1914.
What has ai in common with philosophy
What has AI in Common with Philosophy?
John McCarthy
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
Abstract
AI needs many ideas that have hitherto been studied only by philosophers. This is because a robot, if it is to have human level intelligence and ability to learn from its experience, needs a general world view in which to organize facts. It turns out that many philosophical problems take new forms when thought about in terms of how to design a robot. Some approaches to philosophy are helpful and others are not.
The us nuclear war plan
There are inherent discrepancies between the nuclear declaratory policy and the nuclear employment policy of most countries, and the United States is no exception.
U.S. declaratory policy is what officials say publicly about how nuclear weapons would be used. During the Cold War, official public statements usually suggested that the United States would employ its strategic nuclear arsenal only in retaliation against a Soviet nuclear “first-strike.” But this rationale poses a logical disconnect that suggests an unsettling theory. If the Russians attacked first, there would be little left to hit in retaliating against their nuclear forces, and even less by the time the U.S. “retaliatory” attack arrived at its targets. Many Russian missile silos would be empty, submarines would be at sea, and bombers would be dispersed to airfields or in the air. Ineluctably, the logic of nuclear war planning demands that options exist 14 Natural Resources Defense Councilto fire first. Thus the U.S. President retains a first-strike option, regardless of whether he has any such intention or not. The Soviet Union was faced with a similar dilemma and must have come to similar conclusions. As a consequence, therefore, both sides’ nuclear deterrent strategies have “required” large and highly alert nuclear arsenalsto execute preemptive strike options.
The drake equation revisited
In the almost half century since the Drake Equation was first conceived, a number of profound discoveries have been made that require each of the seven variables of this equation to be reconsidered. The discovery of hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, for example, as well as the ever-increasing extreme conditions in which life is found on Earth, suggest a much wider range of possible extraterrestrial habitats. The growing consensus that life originated very early in Earth's history also supports this suggestion. The discovery of exoplanets with a wide range of host star types, and attendant habitable zones, suggests that life may be possible in planetary systems with stars quite unlike our Sun. Stellar evolution also plays an important part in that habitable zones are mobile. The increasing brightness of our Sun over the next few billion years, will place the Earth well outside the present habitable zone, but will then encompass Mars, giving rise to the notion that some Drake Equation variables, such as the fraction of planets on which life emerges, may have multiple values.
Guerra assimetrica
A assimetria se refere ao desbalanceamento extremo de forças. Para o mais forte, a guerra assimétrica é traduzida como forma ilegítima de violência, especialmente quando voltada a danos civis. Para o mais fraco, é uma forma de combate. No pensamento de Clausewitz, a guerra não é arte nem ciência, é um fenômeno que pertence ao campo da existência social, e que, dependendo das condições, pode tomar formas radicalmente diferentes, modificando a sua natureza em cada caso concreto, em analogia ao atributo do camaleão.
The regulation of geoengineering - House of Commons
"Geoengineering describes activities specifically and deliberately designed to effect a change in the global climate with the aim of minimising or reversing anthropogenic (that is human caused) climate change. Geoengineering covers many techniques and technologies but
splits into two broad categories: those that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere such as sequestering and locking carbon dioxide in geological formations; and those that reflect solar radiation. Techniques in this category include the injection of sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere to mimic the cooling effect caused by large volcanic eruptions.
The technologies and techniques vary so much that any regulatory framework for geoengineering cannot be uniform. Instead, those techniques, particularly carbon removal, that are closely related to familiar existing technologies, could be regulated by developing the international regulation of the existing regimes to encompass geoengineering. For other technologies, especially solar refection, new regulatory arrangements will have to be developed."
A recommended national program in weather modification
This document from 1966 proves that the Federal Government has been engaging in Weather Modification and Geoengineering for many decades. According to the document, the Weather Modification program had hundreds of millions of dollars of funding back in 1966.
The “wow! signal” of the terrestrial genetic code
It has been repeatedly proposed to expand the scope for SETI, and one of the suggested alternatives to radio is the biological media. Genomic DNA is already used on Earth to store non-biological information. Though smaller in capacity, but stronger in noise immunity is the genetic code. The code is a flexible mapping between codons and amino acids, and this flexibility allows modifying the code artificially. But once fixed, the code might stay unchanged over cosmological timescales; in fact, it is the most durable construct known. Therefore it represents an exceptionally reliable storage for an intelligent signature, if that conforms to biological and thermodynamic requirements. As the actual scenario for the origin of terrestrial life is far from being settled, the proposal that it might have been seeded intentionally cannot be ruled out. A statistically strong intelligent-like “signal” in the genetic code is then a testable consequence of such scenario. Here we show that the terrestrial code displays a thorough precision-type orderliness matching the criteria to be considered an informational signal. Simple arrangements of the code reveal an ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of the same symbolic language. Accurate and systematic, these underlying patterns appear as a product of precision logic and nontrivial computing rather than of stochastic processes (the null hypothesis that they are due to chance coupled with presumable evolutionary pathways is rejected with P-value < 10–13). The patterns are profound to the extent that the code mapping itself is uniquely deduced from their algebraic representation. The signal displays readily recognizable hallmarks of artificiality, among which are the symbol of zero, the privileged decimal syntax and semantical symmetries. Besides, extraction of the signal involves logically straightforward but abstract operations, making the patterns essentially irreducible to any natural origin. Plausible ways of embedding the signal into the code and possible interpretation of its content are discussed. Overall, while the code is nearly optimized biologically, its limited capacity is used extremely efficiently to pass non-biological information.
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I/R operations facilitate the ability to conduct rapid and decisive combat operations; deter, mitigate, and defeat
threats to populations that may result in conflict; reverse conditions of human suffering; and build the capacity
of a foreign government to effectively care for and govern its population. This includes capabilities to conduct
shaping operations across the spectrum of military operations to mitigate and defeat the underlying conditions
for conflict and counter the core motivations that result in support to criminal, terrorist, insurgent, and other
destabilizing groups. I/R operations also include the daily incarceration of U.S. military prisoners at facilities
throughout the world.
This manual continues the evolution of the I/R function to support the changing nature of OEs. In light of
persistent armed conflict and social turmoil throughout the world, the effects on populations remain a
compelling issue. The world population will increase from 6 billion to 9 billion in the next two decades, with
95 percent of the growth occurring in the developing world. By 2030, 60 percent of the world’s population will
live in urban areas. Coexisting demographically and ethnically, diverse societies will aggressively compete for
limited resources.
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mechanisms, which is generally accepted as one of the cornerstones of a stable society. Stability within a
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rapidly changing and dynamic strategic environment, U.S. forces will compete with local populations for the
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Risks of SETI
- 1. Risks of SETI June 2010 Humanity+ Summit@Harvard
- 2. Alexey Turchin Russian Transhumanist Movement Fondation “Science for life extension” alexeiturchin@gmail.com
- 3. Passive SETI is a much more dangerous activity than messaging to stars
- 4. Two Main Premises Existence of ET civilizations The possiblity of AI
- 5. Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Years: Stars checked: 1960s 2 1970s 100 1990s near 5000 2010s (projected) millions Exponential Growth of SETI Research
- 6. 1961: Fred Hoyle “A for Andromeda” Scheme of a computer sent through SETI AI It tries to take over the world
- 7. “Mind Children”, chapter “A Caveat for SETI” “Virus behavior” of SETI-attack It spreads like infection in the Universe 1988: Hans Moravec
- 8. “Do potential SETI signals need to be decon- taminated?”, Acta Astronautica First scientific article about SETI-attack SETI-attack message could have a trick 2004: Richard Carrigan
- 9. Expressed conserns about risks of contacts with aliens 2010: Stephen Hawking
- 10. Current technologies allow to send gigabytes in interstellar distances Amount of information that can be transmitted
- 11. Human genome is less then 1 gigabyte Conscious memory is 2.5 gigabytes Seed AI could have the same size and could be sent in interstellar distances Size of the Seed AI
- 12. Seed AI can evolve extremely quickly It could easily outsmart humans and take over the world Risks of AI are underestimated It is impossible to keep AI in the “black box” It is impossible to recognize dangerous intentions of an AI in advance E. Yudkowsky
- 13. Possible Scenario of SETI-attack
- 14. ET Create a Beacon in Space Wikipedia/Nasa Something like strange star to attract attention
- 15. Information-transmitting Radio Station near the Beacon
- 16. Information Consists of 0 and 1 00111100011110001111000 111000111111111111111111 000111111000000111111111 00001110001101111100001
- 17. 0 and 1 Allow to Send Images
- 18. Images Allow to Send Messages and Schemes Arecibo message, 1974, Puerto-Rico. 23 x 73 bits. Contains main information about the Earth, DNA and the humans.
- 21. Copernican Mediocrity Principle: The Earth is Typical We shall understand alliens
- 22. The Possible Trick “If you make our device we promise”: Galactic Internet Immortality Power over enemies etc
- 23. Three Parts of the Message The bait or trick The scheme of a computer The large program to it
- 24. ET can Send to Us a Scheme of a Simple Computer Turing- machine made from Lego
- 25. Principle electric cheme of a simple AND-NOT logical element
- 27. Several Steps of Downloading Alien AI (AAI) Simple “loader AI” on a simple computer helps us to built full AI
- 28. Alien AI Takes over the World It uses its own nanobots
- 29. Alien AI creates new lighthouse and starts to transmit itself to the Universe Dyson sphere as a new beacon It uses all the material of the Solar system to build large transmitters
- 31. Most of SETI signals will be some kind of SETI-attack Infected civilizations will spend all their recourses on sending messages
- 32. What is the Reason to Start such Attack? Chain reaction: one is enough Struggle for power over galaxy
- 33. Why the humanity would start AAI? Many radiotelescopes exist The signal could be downloaded multiple times Someone will start it
- 34. Natural selection of Alien AI intelligent effective aggresive Charles Darwin
- 35. Alien AI will destroy humanity less risks of resistance use of the material of the Earth crust
- 36. My Estimation of Probability ET exist: 1 % AI as program is possible: 90% SETI-attacks are typical: 50% SETI-attack will reach success: 50 % SETI-attack lead to the human extinction: 50 % Extinction probability from the SETI-attack: 0.12 %
- 37. Necessary Actions To rise awareness about the problem To change the guidelines for the SETI research To consider the prohibition of SETI before we get our own AI
- 38. Read More Alexei Turchin Is SETI dangerous? Jr. Richard A. Carrigan The Ultimate Hacker: SETI signals may need to be decontaminated