That’s funny—I don’t consider the FAI thing even remotely “offensive” (perhaps “debatable”, in the sense of “I’m not sure how likely it is—do you have any evidence?” but not “offensive”). I wrote a short story in which the FAI kept human beings humanly-intelligent (though not explained in the story, in my background, it did bring humans to a fairly high minimum, but it did not change the intelligence level overall).
I don’t have evidence. I’m just generalizing from one example that folks at LW are very fond of being intelligent, would probably like to be more intelligent, and would resent being knocked down to 120 IQ or whatever it would take to make creating another AI impossible.
That’s funny—I don’t consider the FAI thing even remotely “offensive” (perhaps “debatable”, in the sense of “I’m not sure how likely it is—do you have any evidence?” but not “offensive”). I wrote a short story in which the FAI kept human beings humanly-intelligent (though not explained in the story, in my background, it did bring humans to a fairly high minimum, but it did not change the intelligence level overall).
I don’t have evidence. I’m just generalizing from one example that folks at LW are very fond of being intelligent, would probably like to be more intelligent, and would resent being knocked down to 120 IQ or whatever it would take to make creating another AI impossible.