Psych professor; wrote The Mating Mind, Spent, Mate, Virtue Signaling. Themes: Evolution, sentience, civilization, EA, X risk, crypto. Wife: @sentientist.
@mer__edith @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai FWIW, Samuel Butler was warning about the dangers of machine intelligence in 1872 in his book 'Erewhon'. As were hundreds of science fiction authors throughout the 20th century. As was @ESYudkowsky even since the early 2000s. @timnitGebru et al were relative latecomers. https://t.co/c3XCTRpyff
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All the turmoil surrounding AI these days has me thinking a lot about Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (1872), the museum in the story, and the “Book of the Machines.” 👇 https://t.co/JyuFUsYu8O
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