Audio: John Danaher on Moral Enhancement
Occasional H+ Magazine contributor John Danaher appeared on the Smart Drugs Smarts podcast this week.
Occasional H+ Magazine contributor John Danaher appeared on the Smart Drugs Smarts podcast this week.
John Danaher reviews the key ideas Nick Bostrom’s recent book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.
There is an interesting connection between the economic debate about technological unemployment, and the bioethical debate about human enhancement.
No one should ever work. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
Blockchain technology is exciting, but many people are put off by the technical and abstruse concepts underpinning it.
There is no denying that improvements in technology allow machines to perform tasks that were once performed best by humans.
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...
Whatever begins to exist has a cause of its existence….
We’ve already started discussions around driverless cars, but there’s so much more to deal with when it comes to artificial intelligence.
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.