Reading:
- Stuart Armstrong—"General Purpose Intelligence : Arguing the Orthogonality Thesis": https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Orthogonality_Analysis_and_Metaethics-1.pdf Supplemental reading: If you want to read more perspectives on the topic, read these:
- Nick Bostrom—"The Superintelligent Will": https://www.nickbostrom.com/superintelligentwill.pdf
- The Godless Theist—"A Critique of Superintelligence": https://thegodlesstheist.com/2018/12/01/a-critique-of-superintelligence/
- Carissa Véliz—"Why Algorithms Are Not Moral Agents": https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=VLIMZW&proxyId=&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FVLIMZW.pdf
- John Danaher—"Why AI Doomsayers Are like Skeptical Theists": https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=DANTEC-2&proxyId=&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FDANTEC-2.pdf Substitute reading: If you are short on time and want to get up to speed quickly for the meetup, read this:
- Arbital—"Orthogonality Thesis": https://arbital.com/p/orthogonality/
Location: 3266 Inglewood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90066
There should be plenty of street parking.
Schedule:
6:30PM − 7:00PM—Gathering/chatting
7:00PM − 7:20PM—Surprise of the Week
7:20PM − 8:20PM—Topic Discussion (& optional off-topic side-group)
8:20PM − 8:30PM—Dinner Logistics
8:30PM - ??????? - Dinner
When we have more than 14 people in attendance, topic discussion will consist of a 5 minute introduction with the whole group, and then we will split into 2 or more discussion circles. One of those groups is may be outside this week. While we anticipate having heating (a patio heater), you may want to dress warmly if you want to be in the outdoor group. Nonetheless, most people will be indoors at some point, so please be vaccinated. We might try to have the meetup be catered this week instead of going out for dinner, which would allow people more time to talk about the topic and hang out. Contact: The best way to contact me (or anybody else who is attending the meetup) is through our Discord. Feel free to message me (T3t) or Vishal directly. Invitation link: https://discord.gg/TaYjsvN