Ben Goertzel

For a long time many of us thought of RSI as the way AGI turns into superintelligence. [...] I was advocating what I called a semi-hard takeoff: a period where the self-improvement was real but not that fast, followed by a point -- once the AGI fully...

Like, right, right now, if I’m in a really good mood, I take everything blissfully and calmly. If I’m in a bad mood and someone points out something I did that was wrong or stupid, like there’s some anger that rises up inside me, I’m like, “f*** you....

As a human being situated in this specific species, place, and time, I care a lot about the condition of all of us humans. And so, I would like to not only create a powerful general intelligence, but create one which is going to be beneficial to huma...