Bloggingheads: Yudkowsky and Aaronson talk about AI and Many-worlds

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Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Aaronson - Percontations: Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Mechanics

Sections of the diavlog:

When will we build the first superintelligence?
Why quantum computing isn’t a recipe for robot apocalypse
How to guilt-trip a machine
The evolutionary psychology of artificial intelligence
Eliezer contends many-worlds is obviously correct
Scott contends many-worlds is ridiculous (but might still be true)

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Aaronson - Percontations: Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Mechanics

Sections of the diavlog:

When will we build the first superintelligence?
Why quantum computing isn’t a recipe for robot apocalypse
How to guilt-trip a machine
The evolutionary psychology of artificial intelligence
Eliezer contends many-worlds is obviously correct
Scott contends many-worlds is ridiculous (but might still be true)

Scott cites the Doomsday Argument in his "The Singularity Is Far":

http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=346

Surely that is a mistake. The Doomsday Argument may suggest that the days of humans like us may be numbered, but doesn't say much more than that - in particular it can't be used to argue against a long and rich future filled with angelic manifestations. So: it is poor evidence against a relatively near era of transcension.

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