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You're not engaging with the claim as it was meant. In context, no human being has ever been "much more intelligent" than me. Not in the same way that I am "muc
by philh 11y ago
You're not engaging with the claim as it was meant. In context, no human being has ever been "much more intelligent" than me. Not in the same way that I am "much more intelligent" than the monkey von Neumann.
You might decide that this means edanm goes off the rails at step four, instead. But you should at least understand where you disagree.
- jameshart 11y agoI'm still not sure you could assume ultimate power and achieve everything you desired if you were the only hacker news reader on a planet of 8 billion monkeys.
- woodchuck64 11y ago> I'm still not sure you could assume ultimate power and achieve everything you desired if you were the only hacker news reader on a planet of 8 billion monkeys. I would think it relatively easy for a human armed with today's knowledge and a reasonable yet limited resource infrastructure (for comparison to the situation of an unguarded AI) to quite easily engineer the demise of primate competitors in the neighborhood. Set some strategic fires, burn down jungles would be the first step. "Fire" might be a metaphor for some technology that an AI might master that humans don't quite have the hang of yet that can be used against them. For example, a significant portion of Americans seem way too easily manipulated by religion and fear, an AI-generated televangelist or Donald Trump figure might be a frightening thought.