Vladimir_Nesov comments on How inevitable was modern human civilization - data - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 26 August 2009 11:54:07AM *  2 points [-]

See Nick Bostrom (2005). What is a Singleton?

A singleton is a more general concept than intelligence explosion. The specific case of a benevolent AGI singleton aka FAI is not a bad ending. Think of it as Nature 2.0, supervised universe, not as a dictator.

Comment author: gwern 26 August 2009 12:41:45PM 0 points [-]

I stand corrected! Maybe this should be a wiki article - it's not that common, but it's awfully hard to google.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 26 August 2009 02:03:16PM 3 points [-]