I intended the former. I’m not sure if it would make sense to say it’s the case globally: certain institutional intelligences are sometimes taken as threats (see: the global warming debate), but there isn’t really a theory, or even a widespread concept, of institutional intelligences in general. (My suspicion is that it was worked out to some extent in the ’30s, and then WW2 went the way it did and the Cold War came around and all that made it seriously unfashionable.)
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Artificial intelligences are overrated as a threat, and institutional intelligences are underrated.
Overrated in LessWrong, or globally? I upvoted assuming the former, although I agree that institutional intelligences are an underrated threat.
I intended the former. I’m not sure if it would make sense to say it’s the case globally: certain institutional intelligences are sometimes taken as threats (see: the global warming debate), but there isn’t really a theory, or even a widespread concept, of institutional intelligences in general. (My suspicion is that it was worked out to some extent in the ’30s, and then WW2 went the way it did and the Cold War came around and all that made it seriously unfashionable.)