whpearson comments on Let's reimplement EURISKO! - Less Wrong

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Comment author: whpearson 13 June 2009 07:41:40PM 1 point [-]

In those posts you are arguing something different from what I was talking about. Sure chimps will never make better technology than humans, but sometimes making more advanced clever technology is not what you want to do and be positively detrimental to your chances of shaping the world to a desirable state. The arms race for nuclear weapons for example or bio-weapons research.

If humans manage to invent a virus that wipes us out, would you still call that intelligent? If so it is not that sort of intelligence we need to create... we need to create things that win in the end, not have short term wins and then destroy itself.

Comment author: asciilifeform 14 June 2009 04:10:41PM 0 points [-]

If humans manage to invent a virus that wipes us out, would you still call that intelligent?

Super-plagues and other doomsday tools are possible with current technology. Effective countermeasures are not. Ergo, we need more intelligence, ASAP.