PK: One big point that Eliezer is trying to make is that just “hacking away at code” without a much better understanding of intelligence is actually a terrible idea. You just aren’t going to get very far. If, by some miracle, you do, the situation’s even worse, as you most likely won’t end up with a Friendly AI. And an UnFriendly AI could be very very bad news.
GenericThinker: A DSL might help, but you need to understand the domain extremely well to design a good DSL.
A new book “The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart” by Valerie Landau and Eileen Clegg in conversation with Douglas Engelbart does seems to back up the original statement that Doug Engelbart’s Augmentation Framework may just be the UBERsolution. http://engelbartbook.com
PK: One big point that Eliezer is trying to make is that just “hacking away at code” without a much better understanding of intelligence is actually a terrible idea. You just aren’t going to get very far. If, by some miracle, you do, the situation’s even worse, as you most likely won’t end up with a Friendly AI. And an UnFriendly AI could be very very bad news.
GenericThinker: A DSL might help, but you need to understand the domain extremely well to design a good DSL.
A new book “The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart” by Valerie Landau and Eileen Clegg in conversation with Douglas Engelbart does seems to back up the original statement that Doug Engelbart’s Augmentation Framework may just be the UBERsolution. http://engelbartbook.com