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> It's game over when machine intelligence controls all the resources needed to ensure their continuation. One might have said the same thing about corporation
by ethbro 8y ago
> It's game over when machine intelligence controls all the resources needed to ensure their continuation.
One might have said the same thing about corporations in 1900...
- mortenjorck 8y agoThis brings me back to the short essay from a few years ago about the corporation as human-powered AI: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-soaking-in-it.html http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-...
- ethbro 8y agoOr as Neal Stephenson put it in 1992, "The franchise and the virus work on the same principle: what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder ― its DNA ― xerox it, and embed it in the fertile lining of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left-turn lane."
- aaroninsf 8y agoOne would arguably have been right. All that is necessary to make this argument compelling is to take a longer view than the human attention span. The current population explosion is evidence for, not against, this, IMO... stars also enjoy boom times, even as they consume the last of their resources, in ever more exotic formulations...