Eliezer, what was your motivation for thinking about this topic and writing this post? Is there a strategic relevance to MIRI or the typical LW reader? Are journalists or other people frequently asking you to comment on AI and unemployment (in which case, why is it titled “Anti-FAQ”)? Is it just intellectual curiosity from your interests in AI and economics?
Partially dispel the view of MIRI wherein we’re allegedly supposed to pontificate on something called ‘AI risk’ and look gravely concerned about it. Lure young economists into looking at the intelligence explosion microeconomics problem.
Ok, thanks. I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t missing something important by not having paid attention to this topic previously, and it sounds like I can still safely ignore it. :)
Eliezer, what was your motivation for thinking about this topic and writing this post? Is there a strategic relevance to MIRI or the typical LW reader? Are journalists or other people frequently asking you to comment on AI and unemployment (in which case, why is it titled “Anti-FAQ”)? Is it just intellectual curiosity from your interests in AI and economics?
Partially dispel the view of MIRI wherein we’re allegedly supposed to pontificate on something called ‘AI risk’ and look gravely concerned about it. Lure young economists into looking at the intelligence explosion microeconomics problem.
Ok, thanks. I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t missing something important by not having paid attention to this topic previously, and it sounds like I can still safely ignore it. :)
What is the “intelligence explosion microeconomics problem”?
This thingy: http://intelligence.org/files/IEM.pdf
Ah.
Goes off to read