Re:Eliezer Yudkowsky: That Alien Message
by rfreytag on Monday December 07, 2009 @07:50AM
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What interested me about this essay:
1. I had not seriously considered the question of what happens when a "transhuman" AI appears (yes casually, not not in depth).
2. The ramifications were likely within my lifetime (I think Google has developing an AI as its explicit aim http://tinyurl.com/yald3f3), personally relevant, and non-trivial.
3. The answer is not immediately clear in a world in which technology makes it increasingly likely someone will break a moratorium and build such an AI (unless we are to accept our fate and either ride the singularity somehow or be marginalized).
You have something something people care a lot about. Reminds me of a "minimum viable product." If you haven't already - do a popular book, a tour, rinse and repeat. Let Rudy Rucker be your guide.
1. I had not seriously considered the question of what happens when a "transhuman" AI appears (yes casually, not not in depth).
2. The ramifications were likely within my lifetime (I think Google has developing an AI as its explicit aim http://tinyurl.com/yald3f3), personally relevant, and non-trivial.
3. The answer is not immediately clear in a world in which technology makes it increasingly likely someone will break a moratorium and build such an AI (unless we are to accept our fate and either ride the singularity somehow or be marginalized).
You have something something people care a lot about. Reminds me of a "minimum viable product." If you haven't already - do a popular book, a tour, rinse and repeat. Let Rudy Rucker be your guide.