{"id":10007,"date":"2012-10-13T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.74.50.173\/2012\/10\/the-singularity-promise-and-peri.html"},"modified":"2017-04-07T04:25:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T04:25:36","slug":"the-singularity-promise-and-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2012\/10\/the-singularity-promise-and-peril.html","title":{"rendered":"The Singularity: Promise and Peril"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Singularity: Promise and Peril by Luke Muehlhauser<\/p>\n<p>Luke Muehlhauser has published dozens of articles on self-help, decision-making, and artificial intelligence, including peer-reviewed research on AI safety. He is currently the Executive Director of the Singularity Institute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/facingthesingularity.com\/\" =blank target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He wrote the online book Facing the Singularity<\/a><\/p><div class=\"nextb-last-paragraph\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"nextb-287716221\">\r\n<div data-aaad='true' data-aa-adunit='\/339474670\/Nextbigfuture_A\/InContent_3'><\/div>\r\n<div data-onpage='true' data-adpath='\/339474670,3911572\/Nextbigfuture_B\/InContent_3'><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Technology is the only thing that matters for altering human development on the long term scale.<\/p>\n<p><a name='more'><\/a>     <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vxO41J93GRo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/88csPwARW7k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/szxBq0O_1sM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xrdDJ8Y4ca0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hegsYnP5kQ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/33456143\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on <b><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/submit\" =blank target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ycombinator<\/a><\/b> or <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\" =blank target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">StumbleUpon<\/A><\/B>. Thanks<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Singularity: Promise and Peril by Luke Muehlhauser Luke Muehlhauser has published dozens of articles on self-help, decision-making, and artificial intelligence, including peer-reviewed research on AI safety. He is currently the Executive Director of the Singularity Institute. He wrote the online book Facing the Singularity Technology is the only thing that matters for altering human &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"The Singularity: Promise and Peril\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2012\/10\/the-singularity-promise-and-peril.html#more-10007\" aria-label=\"More on The Singularity: Promise and Peril\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,99,209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}