Kaj_Sotala

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I'm Research Fellow at the Singularity Institute, and hold a BA in Cognitive Science. Two peer-reviewed journal publications so far:

K.Sotala & H.Valpola [2012] Coalescing Minds: Mind Uploading-Related Group Mind Scenarios. International Journal of Machine Consciousness. http://www.xuenay.net/Papers/CoalescingMinds.pdf

K.Sotala [2012] Advantages of Artificial Intelligences, Uploads, and Digital Minds. International Journal of Machine Consciousness. http://www.xuenay.net/Papers/DigitalAdvantages.pdf

I've also written a number of articles relating to cognitive science and rationality on the community blog Less Wrong: see http://lesswrong.com/user/Kaj_Sotala/submitted/ .

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Mar 11	comment	Is variation in human brain size related to mental functioning? @Paul Ad hominems are hardly the way to judge scientific research. Especially the lower end of these correlations is still small enough that shorter people might on average have a lower IQ without this being particularly noticeable without resorting to statistical analysis. If you have contradictory data, feel free to publish it.
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