A while ago, when I learned of Abram Demski (of all people!) helping someone to build an AGI, I felt the same surprise as now but apparently didn’t update strongly enough. Optimism seems to be the mind-killer in these matters. In retrospect it should’ve been obvious that people like Goertzel would start giving lip service to friendliness while still failing to get the point.
Sadly, I am :-(
A while ago, when I learned of Abram Demski (of all people!) helping someone to build an AGI, I felt the same surprise as now but apparently didn’t update strongly enough. Optimism seems to be the mind-killer in these matters. In retrospect it should’ve been obvious that people like Goertzel would start giving lip service to friendliness while still failing to get the point.