This article takes a balanced look at artificial general intelligence and speculates on possible outcomes for the technology’s eventual development deployment.

When dividing a “manna” ? of private items (commodities, workloads, land, time slots) between n agents, the individual guarantee is welfare each agent can secure in worst case other agents’ preferences and actions. If manna nonatomic utilities are continuous (not necessarily monotone or convex) minmax utility, that our agent’s best share partition manna, guaranteed by Kuhn’s generalization divi...

Many recent studies using healthy adults document enhancements in perception and cognition from playing commercial action videogames (AVGs). Playing action games (e.g., Call of Duty, Medal of Honor) is associated with improved bottom-up lower-level information processing skills like visual-perceptual and attentional processes. One proposal states a general improvement in the ability to interpre...