To be clear, I do not doubt that superhuman artificial general intelligence is practically possible. I do not doubt that humans will be able to create it. What I am questioning is the FOOM part.
...people who perhaps suffer from an excessive attachment to their own abstract models and a lack of exposure to the (so-called) real world?
Yeah, take for example this article by Eliezer. As far as I understand it, I agree with everything, except for the last paragraph:
It might perhaps be more limited than this in mere practice, if it’s just running on a laptop computer or something.
To be clear, I do not doubt that superhuman artificial general intelligence is practically possible. I do not doubt that humans will be able to create it. What I am questioning is the FOOM part.
Yeah, take for example this article by Eliezer. As far as I understand it, I agree with everything, except for the last paragraph:
I hope he is joking.