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Max Tegmark
Overview
Max Tegmark (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish-American physicist, machine learning researcher and author. He is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-founded and leads the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit focused on reducing global catastrophic risks from advanced technologies.
Originally a cosmologist, Tegmark's focus shifted toward artificial intelligence (AI). His 2017 book Life 3.0 presents scenarios for what the world might look like as AI continues to develop. Tegmark advocates for a halt on the development of artificial superintelligence.
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There is much more care and modesty, logic and inventiveness, in a word, more philosophical method in the work of the special sciences than in the so-called "philosophy," and every one will agree with the temperate words of Bagehot[2] on the present system builders: "Unproved abstract principles without number have been eagerly caught up by sanguine men, and then carefully spun out into books and theories, which…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thoughts Out of Season, Part II
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His information, in other words, became an instrument for the control and eradication of the disease. And what is true of this case is true of all science. To the scientist ideas are "working hypotheses" and have their value only as they enable him to predict, and to control. And while it is true that the scientist usually overlooks the so-called _practical_ value of his discoveries, it is none the less true that in…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
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I suppose that the man who reads this article is convinced that this world is formed with intelligence, and that a little astronomy and anatomy suffices to make this universal and supreme intelligence admired. Can he know by himself if this intelligence is omnipotent, that is to say, infinitely powerful? Has he the least notion of the infinite, to understand what is an infinite power?
Voltaire, Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
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Philosophers who discussed Max Tegmark
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- Cosmology
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- Physics
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- Roger Penrose
- The New York Times
- Time (magazine)
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Oxford
- University of California, Berkeley
- New Scientist
- Master of Arts
- Sweden
- Consciousness
- Stuart J. Russell
- Artificial general intelligence
- New York City
- BBC Radio 4
Place in the tradition
Part of Consciousness.