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> And in practice raising superintelligent children who can clone themselves and rewrite their minds is not a thing we know how to do. We could learn to. Throu
by ElFitz 5y ago
> And in practice raising superintelligent children who can clone themselves and rewrite their minds is not a thing we know how to do.
We could learn to. Through trial and error.
Even though a too big mistake means creating a psychopathic superinterlligent child who can clone itself, rewrite turns mind and easily hack the few American ICBMs not protected by the wondrous safety of floppy disks.
- Aeolun 5y agoSeems a bit crazy to assume we’ll jump from ‘not close to human’ to ‘superintelligent’ without going through ‘barely adequate’?
- ElFitz 5y agoOh, definitely. I was just musing on the previous comment and noting that one of the things we do best is learn how to do things we previously didn’t how to do.