The other objections along the lines of, “Oh my God, I’ve never seen anyone define “intelligence” or “general intelligence”, it must have never ever been done by anyone on Earth, how stupid Eliezer must be for discussing this with such blind faith!” are about matters discussed either at the link above, or in a draft of mine up at http://www.sl4.org/wiki/KnowabilityOfFAI.
If you think there’s something obvious that has never ever been discussed, chances are extremely high that you are ignorant of discussions that have already taken place. Among the people who, like, actually think about this stuff. This specifically excludes all the sloppy futurism you’ve read in popular sources like IEEE Spectrum. The real analysts are not stupid. I, personally, am not stupid. Thank you for appreciating this.
I mean, go ahead and ask your questions. Just don’t imply that I’ve never deeply thought about Singularity issue XYZ, foolish mortal.
@HA: The usual: http://singinst.org/AIRisk.pdf
Section 11, in your case.
The other objections along the lines of, “Oh my God, I’ve never seen anyone define “intelligence” or “general intelligence”, it must have never ever been done by anyone on Earth, how stupid Eliezer must be for discussing this with such blind faith!” are about matters discussed either at the link above, or in a draft of mine up at http://www.sl4.org/wiki/KnowabilityOfFAI.
If you think there’s something obvious that has never ever been discussed, chances are extremely high that you are ignorant of discussions that have already taken place. Among the people who, like, actually think about this stuff. This specifically excludes all the sloppy futurism you’ve read in popular sources like IEEE Spectrum. The real analysts are not stupid. I, personally, am not stupid. Thank you for appreciating this.
I mean, go ahead and ask your questions. Just don’t imply that I’ve never deeply thought about Singularity issue XYZ, foolish mortal.