Shulman, Carl. 2010. Omohundro's " Basic AI Drives " and Catastrophic Risks.

Several authors have made the argument that because blind evolutionary processes produced human intelligence on Earth, it should be feasible for clever human engineers to create human-level artificial intelligence in the not-too-distant future. This evolutionary argument, however, has ignored the observation selection effect that guarantees that observers will see intelligent life having arisen...

i hp; medical man who wishes to gain a clear idea of the broad foundations upon which modern medicine and surgery are based should read two great books which are almost twin classics; Rene Vallery Radot's Life of Pasteur" (English translation by Mrs. Devonshire), and Sir Rickman Godlee's "Lord Lister," the re-appearance of which in a third edition we cordially welcome. Both are finely written s...

In this article we study hardware-oriented versions of the recently appeared Layered ORthogonal lattice Detector (LORD) and Turbo LORD (T-LORD). LORD and T-LORD are attractive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) detection algorithms, that aim to approach the optimal Maximum-Likelihood (ML) and Maximum-A-Posteriori (MAP) performance, respectively, yet allowing a complexity quadratic in the num...

Test theories can be divided roughly into two categories. The first is classical test theory, which dates back to Spearman’s conception of the observed test score as a composite of true and error components, and which was introduced to psychologists at the beginning of this century. Important milestones in its long and venerable tradition are Gulliksen’s Theory of Mental Tests (1950) and Lord a...

Ein 45-jähriger, bisher gesunder und hoch leistungsfähiger Langdistanz-Triathlet wurde der Poliklinik zugewiesen. Er beschrieb eine seit fünf Monaten bestehende, stetig voranschreitende Leistungsminderung.

In her engaging and useful book, Accounting for Profit for Breach of Contract: Theory and Practice, Katy Barnett presents a theory of disgorgement damages for breach of contract. This is a welcome publication, as disgorgement damages continue to present both theoretical and practical puzzles for the law of contract, and Barnett makes a valuable contribution to this important topic. By way of ba...