I made my most strident and impolite presentation yet in the AISafety.com Reading Group last night. We were discussing “Conversation with Ernie Davis”, and I attacked this part:
“And once an AI has common sense it will realize that there’s no point in turning the world into paperclips...”
I described this as fundamentally mistaken and like an argument you’d hear from a person that had not read “Superintelligence”. This is ad hominem, and it pains me. However, I feel like the emperor has no clothes, and calling it out explicitly is important.
Explaining things across long inferential distance is frustrating. The norm that arguments should be opposed by arguments (instead of e.g. ad hominems) is good in general, but sometimes a solid argument simply cannot be constructed in five minutes. At least you have pointed towards an answer...
I made my most strident and impolite presentation yet in the AISafety.com Reading Group last night. We were discussing “Conversation with Ernie Davis”, and I attacked this part:
“And once an AI has common sense it will realize that there’s no point in turning the world into paperclips...”
I described this as fundamentally mistaken and like an argument you’d hear from a person that had not read “Superintelligence”. This is ad hominem, and it pains me. However, I feel like the emperor has no clothes, and calling it out explicitly is important.
Explaining things across long inferential distance is frustrating. The norm that arguments should be opposed by arguments (instead of e.g. ad hominems) is good in general, but sometimes a solid argument simply cannot be constructed in five minutes. At least you have pointed towards an answer...