Roko's Basilisk or Pascal's? Thinking of Singularity Thought Experiments as Implicit Religion
In 2010 a thought experiment speculating on the motivations and aims of a potential superintelligent Artificial Intelligence, sometimes known as the Singularity," caused uproar and anxiety on the forum board where it was initially posted. This article considers that thought experiment's d...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Equinox
[2017]
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Implicit religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 279-297 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Thought experiment
/ Artificial intelligence
/ Risk assessment
/ Prognosis
/ Pascal's wager
/ Society
/ Secularism
/ Atheism
/ Religion
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Further subjects: | B
existential risk
B Singularity B Atheism B Artificial Intelligence B UNIQUENESS (Philosophy) B Religion B Technological innovations B Roko's Basilisk B anthropology of AI B thought experiments |
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