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The main thing that we should be focusing on is how to create goals for AI that are compatible with what we value.
A pet peeve that I have in the context of happiness research is that it’s called happiness research.
I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game theoretic analysis.
There are people who throw themselves on a live hand grenade to save their buddies and these folks don’t rise to power.
When you have a capitalistic society, to the extent that you encourage and nurture these kinds of prosocial, generative, giving attitudes, the more you will have success, not the less.
There’s every reason to think that in almost all theaters of human endeavor, education, business and the like, this kind of activity is a positive, not a negative.
This is becoming the central paradox of the Information Age: the easier it is for humans to create content and information on their digital devices, the more likely it is […]
Darwin appreciated the ways in which groups have to evolve compassionate, sympathetic, helping, altruistic behaviors, at least within those groups in order to survive and be successful, vis a vie, other groups.
The purpose of physics is to tell us the story about our world and where we as human beings fit in a wider cosmological scheme. That is why outsider physics, like folk art, works as good imaginative brain teasing.
The Straw Vulcan is a nice trope for Hollywood to use such that Captain Kirk can save the day, but in reality we can't be emotionless.
Bruno Carcellos de Souza Coutinho didn't think it would be necessary to go to the hospital after he accidentally shot himself with a harpoon that went nearly all the way through […]
You've undoubtedly heard the maxim "Life finds a way." Well, if life has indeed found a way on one of the other trillions of planets in our Milky Way Galaxy, it would likely not be our way.
As more communities include cyclists in their infrastructure decisions, American electric bike manufacturers are extolling the virtues of their products, including ease of use and eco-friendliness.
A campaign launched Tuesday in London is a preemptive strike against what some perceive as the inevitable evolution of today's military drone technology.
We always have to remember that in macroeconomic statistics we care about things like growth and unemployment because ultimately they affect peoples’ lives.
If you want to find out what the real final word is from the best thinking in economics, you finally have a place to go.
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Today there is a multiplicity of outlets now through which you can get supposed economic research and access to new economic ideas.
How might we apply the notion of a "Sputnik moment" to our own lives, as we look for those occasions that compel us to invent for tomorrow?
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In Space Chronicles, Neil deGrasse Tyson describes how the Soviet Union was a catalyst for the U.S. space program, and China might be considered a similar catalyst today.