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In my opinion, this all comes down to smart people— who are not computer scientists— believing Ray Kurzweil's absolutely batty ideas about the singularity, whic
by tbabb 12y ago
In my opinion, this all comes down to smart people— who are not computer scientists— believing Ray Kurzweil's absolutely batty ideas about the singularity, which he is deeply emotionally over-invested in because he doesn't want to die: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/11/ray_kurzweil_s_singularity_what_it_s_like_to_pursue_immortality.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/1...
- TeMPOraL 12y agoI don't think it has much to do with Kurzweil - more likely with Bostrom's new book. But generally, I see it as smart people noticing various feedback loops we live in and extrapolating the potential consequences. In a way, bureaucracies, corporations and the market itself are AIs, just (currently) very slow ones.