I don't understand. > Since you are so knowledgeable about the unknowable If knowing the unknown was a requirement to exploring it through playful thought, fo

I don't understand. > Since you are so knowledgeable about the unknowable If knowing the unknown was a requirement to exploring it through playful thought, forming opinions and refining them over time through discussion, reflection and if possible testing, well... we'd still be chunking rocks. I think it is unfair to compare expressing concerns about the implications of AI to debating the gender of angels. No one is trying to build angels... > for instance from Andrew Ng at the Deep Learning Summit a few weeks ago: "dude, stop it. That's such a distraction". Ya, this makes sense in the context of the summit. But, applying it to a guy's blog? It is a blog... > Yes, AI is something we should probably be worried about. Agreed! > "The history of technology advancing has been one of sigmoids that begin as exponentials." Sure, but will we be irrelevant before the slope changes direction? Anyways, I share your fear of advancements in technology being used to secure entrenched power structures. And yes, if it happened it would come before the singularity. But I just can't imagine how anyone wouldn't be afraid to be part of a species that had stopped evolving while a new competing "life" form was evolving at rates that known history has never seen.