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Who f-ing cares if we call it a "superintelligence explosion", the singularity, or Roko's Basilisk? Everyone is trying so hard to coin the new concept that will
by GalenErso 3y ago
Who f-ing cares if we call it a "superintelligence explosion", the singularity, or Roko's Basilisk? Everyone is trying so hard to coin the new concept that will enshrine their name through the ages that we're losing sight of the forest for the trees.
- TacticalCoder 3y agoIt is definitely not a new concept. Vernor Vinge came up with the term in the eighties or early nineties. The Wikipedia page I linked to has more than a hundred references.
- tim333 3y agoActually John von Neumann in the 1950s.