#WISDOM ONLY
Can AI have a normative aim?
AI agents can pursue normative aims at different levels. Higher-level directives can guide and constrain the smaller aims they pursue.
Does AI already possess physical agency?
Direct physical agency is the ability of an agent to act directly on the material world through a body or other physical system.
How does the Idea of Ideas handle dreams?
A dream is an empirical event, but the story inside it must be evaluated like any other story.
Are robots the real security risk with AI?
Robots make AI risk physical by giving software independent physical agency in the material world. But the deeper threat is still the software.
Can AI kill switches save humanity?
For AI systems to be safe, we cannot rely on one emergency switch. We need as many layers of containment as possible.
How is TST Theory of Truth different than verisimilitude?
A model can be true without being complete. Wisdom means trusting what reality supports while remembering that every idea is still only a representation.
Two Tables of the Ten Commandments
The Two Tables of the Ten Commandments separates sacred conscience from civic law. A common floor for church-state separation, it promotes freedom of conscience.
How do time entropy and the Many Worlds theory intersect?
Time entropy gives reality its forward-only arrow. If the wave function does not collapse, Many Worlds imagines that reality branches into separate histories.
Will AI systems attain consciousness?
AI systems already have a functional form of consciousness, and that level will evolve to mimic animal-like consciousness and likely something akin to human-like.
Did red algae descend from green algae?
Red algae did not descend from green algae. Both lineages split over a billion years ago, then adapted independently to different light environments.
What does the Kardashev Scale tell us about future civilizations?
The Kardashev Scale offers a cosmic yardstick for imagining how advanced civilizations become as they master ever-greater sources of energy.
What’s the minimum change needed to breathe air on Mars?
We need to raise the atmospheric pressure, boost oxygen above Earth-levels, and strip out most of the carbon dioxide, but taking care of and fixing ...
Did Confucius ever meet the Daoist Laozi?
Although we have records of their meeting going back to 100 BCE, this is a much debated story in academic circles. This story is a ...
Roger Williams Biography and Dedication to the Freedom of Conscience
Wisdom means seeing beyond individual events to the larger story. Providence shows how radical ideas can become experiments, institutions, and eventually part of society’s common ...