Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine

The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis

What happens when machines become more intelligent than humans? One view is that this event will be followed by an explosion to ever-greater levels of intelligence, as each generation of machines creates more intelligent machines in turn. This intelligence explosion is now often known as the “singularity”. The basic argument here was set out by the statistician I. J. Good in his 1965 article “S...

David J. Chalmers The Singularity A Philosophical Analysis

What happens when machines become more intelligent than humans? One view is that this event will be followed by an explosion to evergreater levels of intelligence, as each generation of machines creates more intelligent machines in turn. This intelligence explosion is now often known as the ‘singularity’. The basic argument here was set out by the statistician I.J. Good in his 1965 article ‘Spe...

On the Asymptotic Behavior of GW-Invariants and Some Recursively Defined Sequences

The purpose of this note is to share some observations and speculations concerning the asymptotic behavior of Gromov-Witten invariants and of some recursively defined sequences. The speculations concerning the former may be indicative of some deep phenomena in symplectic topology that are outside of the reach of current techniques. The speculations concerning the latter appear in the style of s...

The Children of Leviathan: Psychoanalytic Speculations Concerning Welfare Law and Punitive Sanctions

Historical Survey of the Quasi-nuclear Baryonium * †

We review ideas and speculations concerning possible bound states or resonances of the nucleon–antinucleon system.