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Artificial Ignorance
- PaulHoule 9y agoThe lesson of history is that people don't learn from history. In the 1960s there was talk of the "intelligence explosion", double-exponential growth, and all the rest of it. And that was when people didn't have the least idea of how long Silicon had to run. Winter will always be a few months away as long as you have people learning "machine learning" because Marc Cuban told them to. This book from the 1980s https://www.amazon.com/Eco-computer-Intelligence-Geoff-L-Simons/dp/0471913405/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1501001467&sr=1-1&keywords=%22eco-computer%22 https://www.amazon.com/Eco-computer-Intelligence-Geoff-L-Sim... makes a strong case that the 1960's "Forbin Project" scenario of a single malevolent won't happen and instead we will have multiple competing centers that will shirk their duties long before they start fighting each other and us.