Johnicholas comments on Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions - Less Wrong

16 Post author: MichaelGR 11 November 2009 03:00AM

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Comment author: Johnicholas 11 November 2009 11:34:00AM 2 points [-]

At the Singularity Summit, this question (or one similar) was asked, and (if I remember correctly) EY answer was something like: If the world didn't need saving? Possibly writing science fiction.

Comment author: Jack 11 November 2009 02:50:02PM 0 points [-]

Cool. But say the world does need saving, would there be a way to do it that doesn't involve putting something smarter than us in charge?