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To quote Wittgenstein: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” Writing about the the unwritable makes books hard to write. The tools of philosop
by vonnik 10y ago
To quote Wittgenstein: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” Writing about the the unwritable makes books hard to write. The tools of philosophy, in the 20th century at least, rely heavily on obscurantism and impenetrable jargon, to which Bostrom is no stranger.
- Zigurd 10y agoI found Superintelligence very readable. Very little jargon. I suspect he is wrong and that superintelligence is the Y2K of the 21st century. I suspect that super-machine-brains will dominate us as much as power plants sneer at our puny energy output. The most alarming scenarios assume anything, like practical nanotech, could be created by bootstrapping from a powerful brain in a box. And once you make that assumption, kaboom. Just don't enhance the chimps. That would be bad.