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

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Comment author: timtyler 13 November 2009 10:22:36PM *  1 point [-]

Re: "overall skepticism about the prospect of an intelligence explosion"...?

My guess would be that they are unfamiliar with the issues or haven't thought things through very much. Or maybe they don't have a good understanding of what that concept refers to (see link to my explanation - hopefully above). They present no useful analysis of the point - so it is hard to know why they think what they think.

The AAAI seem to have publicly come to these issues later than many in the community - and it seems to be playing catch-up.

Comment author: timtyler 14 November 2009 06:30:24PM 0 points [-]

It looks as though we will be hearing more from these folk soon:

"Futurists' report reviews dangers of smart robots"

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_651056.html

It doesn't sound much better than the first time around.