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Mind Is All That Matters: Reasons to Focus on Cognitive Technologies

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Mind Is All That Matters: Reasons to Focus on Cognitive Technologies

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    1. Mind Is All That Matters: Reasons to Focus on Cognitive Technologies

    10. "Book smarts" vs. cognition: "Book smarts" evokes images of: Calculus Chess Memorizing facts Strict rules in well-understood situations Other stuff that happens in the brain: Persuasiveness Enthusiasm Empathy Strategic thinking Musical talent Rationality

    11. The scale of intelligent minds: a parochial view.

    12. The scale of intelligent minds: a parochial view.

    13. "Supermen are superthinkers; anything else is a side issue." -- SF author Robert Heinlein

    18. One of these technologies is not like the others... Artificial Intelligence Cancer cure Interplanetary travel Nanomanufacturing

    19. "The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific inquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms... Modern biologists were coming once more to the acceptance of something and that was a vital principle." -- Lord Kelvin

    21. In Every Known Human Culture: tool making weapons grammar tickling meal times mediation of conflicts dance, singing personal names promises mourning

    22. A complex adaptation must be universal within a species.

    23. A complex adaptation must be universal within a species. If: 6 necessary genes Each at 10% frequency in population Then: 1 in 1,000,000 have complete adaptation

    24. Incremental evolution of complexity: [A] A is advantageous by itself. [A?B] B depends on A. [A'?B] A' replaces A, depends on B. [A'B?C] C depends on A' and B ...

    26. The Psychic Unity of Humankind Complex adaptations must be universal in a species – including cognitive machinery in Homo sapiens!

    28. The Great Failure of Imagination: Anthropomorphism

    30. Mind Projection Fallacy: If I am ignorant about a phenomenon, this is a fact about my state of mind, not a fact about the phenomenon. (Jaynes, E.T. 2003. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.)

    38. Fallacy of the Giant Cheesecake Major premise: A superintelligence could create a mile-high cheesecake. Minor premise: Someone will create a recursively self-improving AI. Conclusion: The future will be full of giant cheesecakes. Power does not imply motive.

    39. Fallacy of the Giant Cheesecake Major premise: A superintelligence could create a mile-high cheesecake. Minor premise: Someone will create a recursively self-improving AI. Conclusion: The future will be full of giant cheesecakes. Power does not imply motive.

    50. Summary: Intelligence supports all human abilities Technology comes from intelligence Whatever impacts intelligence lifts the tree by its roots >H equals >H mind Cognitive technology opens vast new regions of mind design space Technology improving intelligence closes the loop - positive feedback!

    51. Mind Is All That Matters

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