I have a plan. Posts here have convinced me that the singularity will most likely be a lose condition for most people. So I’ll only activate my plan if I think other actors are getting close.
Since you posted above that you’re participating in the AMA, can you give some details of this plan? (Assuming step one isn’t “tell people about this plan”, in which case please don’t end the world just because you precommitted to answering questions.)
I think sharing concrete details would be a bad idea, but it’s not like I’ve come up with any clever trick. I’ll do it the same way I’d do anything else—buy what I can, make what I can’t. I am (rightly or not) very confident in my programming abilities.
No. I have no particular skills in that field, and it’s the sort of thing that’s plagued by optimism. Besides, it’s far too big a task for any one person—it’ll be lit off by whole industries working for decades, not by one person turning on Skynet.
No, not by myself. Wouldn’t have the skillset for it, anyways. So I only try to introduce people to things like MIRI, to improve the chances that future discussions might not stop dead in fatalistic and nihilistic clichés. Effective altruism is an angle where I try to get a sense if a worthwhile elaboration is possible, as steering the arguments is somewhat easier when not starting with the most crazy stuff first.
I am asking everybody here.
Do you have a plan of your own, to ignite the Singularity, the Intelligence explosion, or whatever you want to call it?
If so, when?
How?
I have a plan. Posts here have convinced me that the singularity will most likely be a lose condition for most people. So I’ll only activate my plan if I think other actors are getting close.
becomes wildly curious
Since you posted above that you’re participating in the AMA, can you give some details of this plan? (Assuming step one isn’t “tell people about this plan”, in which case please don’t end the world just because you precommitted to answering questions.)
I think sharing concrete details would be a bad idea, but it’s not like I’ve come up with any clever trick. I’ll do it the same way I’d do anything else—buy what I can, make what I can’t. I am (rightly or not) very confident in my programming abilities.
This post reminds me of Denethor saying the Ring was only to be used in utmost emergency at the bitter end
Insert pun on the phrase ‘ignite the Singularity’.
No. I have no particular skills in that field, and it’s the sort of thing that’s plagued by optimism. Besides, it’s far too big a task for any one person—it’ll be lit off by whole industries working for decades, not by one person turning on Skynet.
No, not by myself. Wouldn’t have the skillset for it, anyways. So I only try to introduce people to things like MIRI, to improve the chances that future discussions might not stop dead in fatalistic and nihilistic clichés. Effective altruism is an angle where I try to get a sense if a worthwhile elaboration is possible, as steering the arguments is somewhat easier when not starting with the most crazy stuff first.