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)
"relativity" was meant to refer to SR not GR
Sorry, it seems I was too sloppy, I even must revise my opinion on Scott who seemed to represent a very reasonable point of view although (I agree with you) he tries to conform a bit too much for my taste as well.
Still, I have a very special intutitive suspicions with the WMI: if the physics is so extremely generous and powerful that it spits out all those universes with ease, why does not it allow us to solve exponential problems?
How comes that our world has such a very special physics that it allows us to constructs machines that are slightly more power... (read more)