The Libertarian Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence - Part 4 of 5
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MINDS WITH EXOTIC PROPERTIES
Next, the authors proceed to explore the unusual properties that non-human minds may exhibit, beginning with the idea that it is theoretically possible to have AGI's with only some of human characteristics.
The Human Analogue
And so, the next question that the authors pose is as follows. If we create an AGI that is sapient and exhibits human-like behaviour but it is not sentient what would…
The Libertarian Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence - Part 3 of 5
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MACHINES WITH MORAL STATUS
Defining Moral Status
The authors then proceed to attempt to define moral status. They borrow the following definition and seemed to be happy with it:
X has moral status because X counts morally in its own right, it is permissible/impermissible to do things to it for its own sake.
Which obviously get us nowhere although the authors seem to disagree. As you can see, the definition…
The Libertarian Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence - Part 2 of 5
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ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
Or AGI. It is the field of unconstrained machine intelligence. What does "unconstrained" means? It simply means no boundaries. Yes, we have very intelligent machines, such as IBM's Deep Blue that can beat any human at chess. But any 5 years old human can beat Deep Blue at Tic-Tac-Toe!
AGI is the holy grail of AI. A machine that can think as intelligently as a human in…
The Libertarian Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence - Part 1 of 5
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Today we are going to have some fun on a more speculative terrain. Most people are obliviously happy about the impending revolution that is coming. No, it is not the Libertarian revolution or the "workers'" revolution (we already had that one), but the intelligent machine revolution. Kurzweil called this fact in his book "The Singularity Is Near". The idea is simple; what will happen when we create a computer capable…
Windows 10 - An Austrian / Libertarian Perspective - Part 2 of 2
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ENTER THE GOVERNMENT
What about it? We made the choice. It is ours. If we accepted such a risk it is our decision. We could have gone with Linux… to mention one OS. But no. People are so used to have a cake and to eat it too that they always "go to momma" when they want to cheat.
Come again?
Look, by choosing W10 we accepted MS's conditions. Yet,…
Windows 10 - An Austrian / Libertarian Perspective - Part 1 of 2
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Windows 10, the new operating system from Microsoft is causing some waves. Sure, it follows the typical MS development or the rule of three. Only the third version is OK. We have had Windows 8, 8.1 (which they packaged as a "minor" upgrade…whatever) and now 10. Thus, this one should be OK. And it seems to be… if one holds one's nose and ignores the "invasion of privacy" stench.…
F&P State Of Affairs
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You may have noticed that recently things have been going a bit off-rails so to speak. No, you are not deluded. We are having some troubles. What kind of troubles you ask? The kind that are easy to fix and the kind that are not.
On the first category, our internet provider has been having some difficulties and this led to several outages and other issues. All these issues are…
Lesson #244 - Austrian Economics For Dummies - Monopoly - Part 2 of 2
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The Price Definition
OK. So due to the subjective assignment of value, it is not possible to define what is a "given product" from a monopolistic point of view. However, even assuming that all products are "unique", we can still go back to reality and we can say that:
"the manufacturer or supplier of such "unique" products has a monopoly when it can impose "monopolistic prices""
Again, this seem like…
Lesson #244 - Austrian Economics For Dummies - Monopoly - Part 1 of 2
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Today we are going to look at one of the biggest areas of fear people have when they look at corporations: monopolies. But why are people so afraid of monopolies? Because they imply powerlessness, exploitation and all around bad karma. But is it so and if so wouldn't free markets make them widespread and invincible? In a word, no. But don't believe us. Let's think it through together.
Bad Definitions…
