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Ben Goertzel
Personal blog · multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.comaiscience
Ben Goertzel writes The Multiverse According to Ben, a personal blog at multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com about ai and science. Since 2008, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It) ”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Ben Goertzel's blog as an AI researcher's take on the singularity and the FOOM debate, and as analysis of dolphin intelligence. Comments cite it as a source rather than praising the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It) 3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-10-30
What Hacker News says?
Dolphins are supposedly known to gang rape, but I can't find a good source. Best articles on dolphin intelligence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetacean_intelligence And analysis: http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2009/04/cetacea...
Comment linking /2009/04/cetacean-consciousness.html
on “Why dolphins are deep thinkers”Submitted The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It) as a story · 36 points
HN discussionBen Goertzel, who is a bona fide AI researcher and was connected with SIAI/MIRI before a leadership split, has written about the topic: http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2010/10/singula... http://jetpress.org/v22/goertzel-pitt.htm You might find some other related commentary with the search term "scary idea", which is what Ben has labeled Yudkowsky's side of the FOOM debate typified by the "That Alien Mes…
Comment linking /2010/10/singularity-institutes-scary-idea-and.html
on “Artificial intelligence: Our final invention?”Submitted GPT3 – Super-Cool but Not a Path to AGI as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI don't know why but the ?m=1 in the url is breaking the site. Go to this url and save yourself the frustration. https://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2018/06/google...
Comment linking /2018/06/google-deep-minds-bogus-ai-patent.html
on “Google Deep Mind’s Bogus AI Patent Filings”Submitted Google Deep Mind’s Bogus AI Patent Filings as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI lost ten years of my life to worrying about AI risk. I try not to be bitter about that as the rationality techniques I learned along the way have helped me immensely. But I do try to caution others who appear to be falling down the same rabbit hole. It is the AI x-risk crowd that is non-mainstream, so there isn't really an easily accessible collection of opposing viewpoints, because few have bothered to write up t…
Comment linking /2010/10/singularity-institutes-scary-idea-and.html
on “Ask HN: If AI can potentially wipe us out, why is there a race to achieve it?”Submitted Is Software Improving Exponentially? as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT-3 – Super-Cool, but Not a Path to AGI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mind uploading via Gmail as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Multiverse According to Ben Goertzel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discovering New States of Mind as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life Is Complexicated as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will Corporations Prevent the Singularity? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Would It Take to Move Rapidly Toward Beneficial Human-Level AGI? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ben Goertzel: The Structure of the Physical World and Definitions of Intelligence as a story · 1 points
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