I know, it wasn’t my intention to discredit Peer, I quite like his ideas. I’m probably more crazy than him anyway.
But if I can come up with such conclusions, who else will? Also, why isn’t anyone out to kill people, or will be? I’m serious, why not? Just imagine EY found out that we can be reasonable sure, for example Google, would let loose a rogue AI soon. Given how the LW audience is inclined to act upon ‘mere’ probability estimates, how wouldn’t it be appropriate to bomb Google, given that was the only way to stop them in due time from turning the world into a living hell? And how isn’t this meme, given the right people and circumstances, a great danger? Sure, me saying EY might be a greater danger was nonsense, just said to provoke some response. By definition, not much could be worse than uFAI.
This incident is simply a good situation to extrapolate. If a thought-experiment can be deemed to be dangerous enough to be not just censored and deleted but for people to be told not even to seek any knowledge of it, much less discuss it, I’m wondering about the possible reaction to a imminent and tangible danger.
I know, it wasn’t my intention to discredit Peer, I quite like his ideas. I’m probably more crazy than him anyway.
But if I can come up with such conclusions, who else will? Also, why isn’t anyone out to kill people, or will be? I’m serious, why not? Just imagine EY found out that we can be reasonable sure, for example Google, would let loose a rogue AI soon. Given how the LW audience is inclined to act upon ‘mere’ probability estimates, how wouldn’t it be appropriate to bomb Google, given that was the only way to stop them in due time from turning the world into a living hell? And how isn’t this meme, given the right people and circumstances, a great danger? Sure, me saying EY might be a greater danger was nonsense, just said to provoke some response. By definition, not much could be worse than uFAI.
This incident is simply a good situation to extrapolate. If a thought-experiment can be deemed to be dangerous enough to be not just censored and deleted but for people to be told not even to seek any knowledge of it, much less discuss it, I’m wondering about the possible reaction to a imminent and tangible danger.