The first sentence is “Here you’ll find scholarly material and popular overviews of intelligence explosion and its consequences.” which parses badly for me and it isn’t clear whether it’s supposed to be a title (what this site is about) or just a single-sentence paragraph. I think leaving it out altogether is best.
I agree with the others that the mouse-chimp-Einstein illustration is unsuitable because it’s unlikely to communicate clearly to the target audience. I went through the slides of the “The Challenge of Friendly AI” talk but I couldn’t find a more suitable illustration.
Maybe the illustration can be “fixed” by simply replacing the Village Idiot and Einstein arrows by a single arrow labeled “human”. Then the picture becomes a trivial depiction that humans are closer to chimps in intelligence than to post-intelligence explosion AIs. The more interesting insight (that Einstein and the village idiot have the same log-intelligence) will be gone but you can’t really convey that in 4 seconds anyway.
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The first sentence is “Here you’ll find scholarly material and popular overviews of intelligence explosion and its consequences.” which parses badly for me and it isn’t clear whether it’s supposed to be a title (what this site is about) or just a single-sentence paragraph. I think leaving it out altogether is best.
I agree with the others that the mouse-chimp-Einstein illustration is unsuitable because it’s unlikely to communicate clearly to the target audience. I went through the slides of the “The Challenge of Friendly AI” talk but I couldn’t find a more suitable illustration.
Maybe the illustration can be “fixed” by simply replacing the Village Idiot and Einstein arrows by a single arrow labeled “human”. Then the picture becomes a trivial depiction that humans are closer to chimps in intelligence than to post-intelligence explosion AIs. The more interesting insight (that Einstein and the village idiot have the same log-intelligence) will be gone but you can’t really convey that in 4 seconds anyway.