Brains, eyes, environments, and why no trajectory of intelligence we can actually inspect supports the idea of monotonic improvement toward "superintelligence." Start with an animal that should embarrass us. The mantis shrimp has twelve types of color photoreceptor; you have three. For decades the natural inference ran straight downhill from that number: twelve channels against … Continue reading Superintelligent A.I: The Measure Moves
Tag: Philosophy of technology
Installing the Seat on the Machine
Companion to the Seat series. The series argued that no contentful verdict comes from nowhere, that the only honest residue of neutrality is declaration, and that a community which grounds its authority in a method hides the one choice the method cannot make. This essay runs that result on the machine — and finds the … Continue reading Installing the Seat on the Machine
