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goals

  • On empathizing with machines.

    With sufficient power to pursue its goals, an AI might destroy the world. But then, we’d probably do it too.

    December 1, 2017

    Frank Brown Cloud

    All posts, Economics, Video games
    AI, algorithm, apocalypse, artificial intelligence, Burt Helm, computer games, decision-making, empathy, end of the world, ethics, Facebook, Facebook advertising, Facebook algorithm, Frank Lantz, goals, GPS, Grand Theft Auto, GTA, Guantánamo, machines, money, morality, neural networks, paperclips, philosophy, the algorithm, tools
    On empathizing with machines.
  • On goals and Jack Gilbert’s “Failing and Falling.”

    We either fail to reach our goals … or they fail us. Striving is fine, but we should enjoy the process of life.

    August 25, 2017

    Frank Brown Cloud

    All posts, Psychology
    Adam Alter, beauty, death, exercise, Facebook, Failing and Falling, fulfillment, goal-oriented, goals, growth, Icarus, Instagram, Irresistible, Jack Gilbert, Jack Vance, jail poetry, meaning of life, Pattiann Rogers, poetry, prison poetry, process, process-oriented, rec yard, tech companies, The Demon Princes, The Greatest Grandeur, The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, unhappiness, University of Phoenix, withdrawal
    On goals and Jack Gilbert’s “Failing and Falling.”

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