> I'm always amused when I read "stop making progress, there are some risks!". Of course there are, duh.
It's ironic that you characature one point of view as facile, yet your point of view is similarly so - with no characture needed.
What is being discussed is existential risk, and 'unfortunately' you'll probably never get to look silly for taking your point of view, because if it does come to pass we won't be here to discuss it.
I mean to take the concept of making progress and it having associated risks and then make such as generalisation is just not sensible. Progress does not have to continue having the same properties it has had historically (which is why perhaps putting too much stock in history and its wisdoms is dangerous). We could be heading towards a proverbial waterfall.
The last remark about intelligence seems rather optimistic... resources, time and luck are largely limiting factors because of our own biological limitations.
Perhaps we are simply a link in evolution between biological life and cybernetic life. Who knows?
I still think however that the Super AI singularity is a phantasm. Intelligence is not the key to everything. As fast as ideas can go, putting them into action is the tricky part.
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> I'm always amused when I read "stop making progress, there are some risks!". Of course there are, duh.
It's ironic that you characature one point of view as facile, yet your point of view is similarly so - with no characture needed.
What is being discussed is existential risk, and 'unfortunately' you'll probably never get to look silly for taking your point of view, because if it does come to pass we won't be here to discuss it.
I mean to take the concept of making progress and it having associated risks and then make such as generalisation is just not sensible. Progress does not have to continue having the same properties it has had historically (which is why perhaps putting too much stock in history and its wisdoms is dangerous). We could be heading towards a proverbial waterfall.
The last remark about intelligence seems rather optimistic... resources, time and luck are largely limiting factors because of our own biological limitations.
Perhaps we are simply a link in evolution between biological life and cybernetic life. Who knows?
I still think however that the Super AI singularity is a phantasm. Intelligence is not the key to everything. As fast as ideas can go, putting them into action is the tricky part.