Hello people into AGI! I am Andrés Gómez Emilsson, the former president of the Stanford Transhumanist Associations. I just graduated from Stanford with a masters in computational psychology. I would like to request your attention for a moment:
There is a wide number of transhumanist strains/clusters, and we don't really understand why. How do we explain the fact that immortality is the number one concern for some, while it is a very minor concern for others who are more preoccupied with AI apocalypse or making everyone animated by gradients of bliss? A possible interpretation is that our values and objectives are in fact intimately connected to our background assumptions about fundamental matters such as consciousness and personal identity. To test this theory, I developed a questionnaire for transhumanists that will examine the relationship between transhumanist goals and their background philosophical assumptions. If you wish to contribute, please find this questionnaire here (it takes ~15 minutes): https://stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8v9vIIyIOCBV8c5 The link will be alive until July 30 2015. The very sense we give to words requires an underlying network of background assumptions to support them. Thus, when we don't share implicit background assumptions, we often interpret what others say in very different ways than what they had in mind. With enough transhumanists answering this questionnaire (about 150) we will be able to develop a better ontology. What would this look like? I don't know yet, but I can give you an example of the sort of results this work can deliver: qualiacomputing.com/2015/06/09/state-space-of-drug-effects-results/ Thank you in advance. Andrés :) ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
