I spent a fair amount of time trying to respond to this but the app first was flaky and then crashed and lost what I had entered, so screw it
On Tuesday, July 28, 2015, Pawel Pachniewski <[email protected]> wrote: > Too many questions for me and they box me into positions I wouldn't > otherwise declare, so it'd just be noise. Good luck, though. :) > > Pawel Pachniewski > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Andrés Gómez Emilsson < > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> >> 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> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26958645-ca8dd8d2> | >> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >> <http://www.listbox.com> >> > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/8630185-a57a74e1> | Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- 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
