Audio: John Danaher on Moral Enhancement
Occasional H+ Magazine contributor John Danaher appeared on the Smart Drugs Smarts podcast this week.
Read More »
24 search results for "john danaher"
Bostrom on Superintelligence (1): The Orthogonality Thesis
John Danaher reviews the key ideas Nick Bostrom’s recent book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.
Read More »
Will technological unemployment lead to human disenhancement?
There is an interesting connection between the economic debate about technological unemployment, and the bioethical debate about human enhancement.
Read More »
The Philosophy of Games and the Postwork Utopia
No one should ever work. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
Read More »
Blockchain Technology, Smart Contracts and Smart Property
Blockchain technology is exciting, but many people are put off by the technical and abstruse concepts underpinning it.
Read More »
Polanyi’s Paradox: Will humans maintain any advantage over machines?
There is no denying that improvements in technology allow machines to perform tasks that were once performed best by humans.
Read More »
Why haven’t robots taken our jobs?
You’ve probably noticed the trend. The doomsayers are yelling once more. They are telling us that technology poses a threat to human employment — that the robots are coming for our jobs. This is a thesis that has been defended in several academic papers, popular booksand newspaper articles. It has been propounded by leading figures in the tech industry, and repeatedly debated and analysed in the m...
Read More »
Beginning to Exist and the Kalam Cosmological Argument
Whatever begins to exist has a cause of its existence....
Read More »
Who’s to Blame When Artificial Intelligence Systems Go Wrong?
We’ve already started discussions around driverless cars, but there’s so much more to deal with when it comes to artificial intelligence.
Read More »
Neuroscience and Free Will
This discovery — that our brains ‘make us do it’ and that ‘we’ don’t — is thought to have a number of significant social implications, particularly for our practices of blame and punishment.
Read More »