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| − | '''Luke Muehlhauser''' is a Research Analyst at Open Philanthropy Project.<ref>[https://www.openphilanthropy.org/about/team/luke-muehlhauser Luke Muehlhauser - | + | '''Luke Muehlhauser''' is a Research Analyst at Open Philanthropy Project.<ref>[https://www.openphilanthropy.org/about/team/luke-muehlhauser Luke Muehlhauser - Senior Research Analyst]</ref><ref>[http://lukemuehlhauser.com/about/ Luke Muehlhauser]</ref> His investigative research spans a wide range of topics - especially the social sciences, global catastrophic risks, and technical and philosophical issues that are relevant to Open Philanthropy’s overall giving strategy.<ref>[https://www.openphilanthropy.org/about/team/luke-muehlhauser Luke Muehlhauser - Senior Research Analyst]</ref> |
Muehlhauser is an [[Atheism|atheist]] who owns the website Common Sense Atheism.<ref>[http://commonsenseatheism.com/?page_id=3 Common Sense Atheism - About]</ref> He is an outspoken advocate of [[Naturalism (philosophy)|naturalism]].<ref>[http://commonsenseatheism.com/?page_id=3 Common Sense Atheism - About]</ref> Previously, he was an [[Evangelical Christians|evangelical Christian]].<ref>[http://commonsenseatheism.com/?page_id=3 Common Sense Atheism - About]</ref> | Muehlhauser is an [[Atheism|atheist]] who owns the website Common Sense Atheism.<ref>[http://commonsenseatheism.com/?page_id=3 Common Sense Atheism - About]</ref> He is an outspoken advocate of [[Naturalism (philosophy)|naturalism]].<ref>[http://commonsenseatheism.com/?page_id=3 Common Sense Atheism - About]</ref> Previously, he was an [[Evangelical Christians|evangelical Christian]].<ref>[http://commonsenseatheism.com/?page_id=3 Common Sense Atheism - About]</ref> | ||
Revision as of 15:25, August 13, 2019
Luke Muehlhauser is a Research Analyst at Open Philanthropy Project.[1][2] His investigative research spans a wide range of topics - especially the social sciences, global catastrophic risks, and technical and philosophical issues that are relevant to Open Philanthropy’s overall giving strategy.[3]
Muehlhauser is an atheist who owns the website Common Sense Atheism.[4] He is an outspoken advocate of naturalism.[5] Previously, he was an evangelical Christian.[6]
Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute which was formerly called the Singularity Institute (see: Atheism, transhumanism and the hypothesized technological singularity and Atheism and consciousness).[7]
Luke Melhauser wrote about a future hypothesized technological singularity:
| “ | When humanity builds machines with greater-than-human intelligence, they will also be better than we are at creating still smarter machines. Those improved machines will be even more capable of improving themselves or their successors. This is a positive feedback loop that could, before losing steam, produce a machine with vastly greater than human intelligence: machine superintelligence. Such a superintelligence would have enormous powers to make the future unlike anything that came before it.
Event horizon: All social and technological progress thus far has come from human brains. When technology creates entirely new kinds of intelligence, this will cause the future to be stranger than we can imagine. So there is an ‘event horizon’ in the future beyond which our ability to predict the future rapidly breaks down.[8] |
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Muehlhauser does concede that a technological singularity may never occur.[9]
An article entitled The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists describes the atheist Ray Kurzweil thusly:
| “ | Ray Kurzweil sees technology as fulfilling all aspirations previously ascribed to religion, including immortality. He argues that computing machines will soon outstrip human cognitive capacities, at which point humanity will upload itself onto a new, indestructible digital medium (an atheist version/vision of “resurrection”).[10] | ” |
See also
References
- ↑ Luke Muehlhauser - Senior Research Analyst
- ↑ Luke Muehlhauser
- ↑ Luke Muehlhauser - Senior Research Analyst
- ↑ Common Sense Atheism - About
- ↑ Common Sense Atheism - About
- ↑ Common Sense Atheism - About
- ↑ Luke Muehlhauser - About
- ↑ Singularity FAQ - written by Luke Muehlhauser
- ↑ Singularity FAQ - written by Luke Muehlhauser
- ↑ The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists