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This is just another made up problem to wring our hands about. Remember The Singularity, is that not cool anymore? How about we focus on actual problems that a
by jonny_eh 12y ago
This is just another made up problem to wring our hands about. Remember The Singularity, is that not cool anymore?
How about we focus on actual problems that actually exist, e.g. climate change, government corruption, and income inequality.
- mod 12y agoCorruption and inequality are not threats to the existence of our species. Also, this is a common illogical argument, akin to "how can you own a smartphone when kids are starving in Africa?" Your smartphone is just another made up necessity to waste your money on...
- theatgrex 12y agoMachine Superintelligence is basically the same thing as the singularity. you can't have one with out the other
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoThis is part of that. At some point we hand over control, not to incompetent humans, but to unknowable machine AIs. Doing it already (traffic lights; phone answering bots; even your power company schedules generation using algorithms). We should do this with eyes open, or we will find ourselves unable to influence our society in unexpected ways.
- pulakm 12y agoWhy do you not see this as being a problem? The sequence of events Sam sketched out is pretty logical. It hinges on machines being able to optimize for "survive and reproduce", which feels very plausible to me.
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