Respectable Person: check. Arguing against AI doomerism: check. Me subsequently thinking, “yeah, that seemed reasonable”: no check, so no bounty. Sorry!
It seems weaselly to refuse a bounty based on that very subjective criterion, so, to keep myself honest, I’ll post my reasoning publicly. If I had to point at parts that seemed unreasonable, I’d choose (a) the comparison of [X-risk from superintelligent AIs] to [X-risk from bacteria] (intelligent adversaries seem obviously vastly more worrisome to me!) and (b) “why would I… want to have a system that wants to reproduce? …Those are bad things, don’t do that… regulate those.” (Everyone will not just!)
(I post these points not in order to argue about them, just as a costly signal of my having actually engaged intellectually.) (Though, I guess if you do want to argue about them, and you convince me that I was being unfairly dismissive, I’ll pay you, I dunno, triple?)
Jeff Hawkins may qualify, see his first Lex Fridman interview: 1:55:19.
Thanks for the link!
Respectable Person: check. Arguing against AI doomerism: check. Me subsequently thinking, “yeah, that seemed reasonable”: no check, so no bounty. Sorry!
It seems weaselly to refuse a bounty based on that very subjective criterion, so, to keep myself honest, I’ll post my reasoning publicly. If I had to point at parts that seemed unreasonable, I’d choose (a) the comparison of [X-risk from superintelligent AIs] to [X-risk from bacteria] (intelligent adversaries seem obviously vastly more worrisome to me!) and (b) “why would I… want to have a system that wants to reproduce? …Those are bad things, don’t do that… regulate those.” (Everyone will not just!)
(I post these points not in order to argue about them, just as a costly signal of my having actually engaged intellectually.) (Though, I guess if you do want to argue about them, and you convince me that I was being unfairly dismissive, I’ll pay you, I dunno, triple?)