Philosopher David Chalmers on the Singularity

by Socrates on April 9, 2010

This is a great video of Australian philosopher David Chalmers presenting during the Singularity Summit 2009.

Click the link if you want to read David Chalmers’ full paper called The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis.

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Simple1248

This is one of the best singularity videos I have ever seen.
http://singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com/ Socrates

Agreed. I love it too! I’ve been trying to get him for an interview but not luck so far…
http://cmstewartwrite.wordpress.com/ CMStewart

How would we be certain an AI++ is benign? Seems an AI++ would, by definition, be able to easily trick us.

Chalmers also makes a compelling point about people uploading into zombiehood (“functional equivalents”). Each one of us could upload and testify all is well and good every step of the way, but how would we really “know”? The nature of zombiehood is the perpetuation of an illusion. At some point the entirety of the original person could be replaced by the zombie, and the person wouldn’t even see it coming. The “person” would simply cease to exist, leaving a “zombie” in its place.
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