Do AIs Need to Have Fun?

By Jonathan

The AI researcher Jurgen Schmidhuber has argued in a talk that there is a precise way to optimize a self-improving superintelligence based upon Godel’s mathematics. He further explained this in a paper audaciously named “Formal…

What Will the World be like in 2053?

By Jonathan

(Note: this was originally posted as an invited answer on Quora. However, by writing this I extended my previous thinking in some new ways, so I thought it should also appear here.) I’ll turn 100 in…