==Re comments on "Singularity Paper"== Re comments, I had been given to understand that the point of the page was to summarize and cite Eliezer's arguments for the audience of ''Minds and Machines''. Do you think this was just a bad idea from the start? (That's a serious question; it might very well be.) Or do you think the endeavor is a good one, but the writing on the page is just lame? --User:Zack M. Davis 20:19, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
(this is about my opinion on the writing in the wiki page)
No, just use his writing as much as possible- directly in the text of the paper. Whole articles/posts in sequence for the whole paper would be best, or try to copy-paste together some of the key points of a series of articles/posts (but do you really want to do that and leave out the rich, coherent, consistent explanation that these points are surrounded in?)
My comments may seem to imply that we would essentially be putting together a book. That would be an AWESOME book... we could call it "Intelligence Explosion".
If someone ended up doing a book like that, they might as well include a section on FAI. If SIAI produces a relevant FAI paper, that could be included (or merged) into the FAI section
SEE THIS:
Robin criticizes Eliezer for not having written up his arguments about the Singularity in a standard style and submitted them for publication. Others, too, make the same complaint: the arguments involved are covered over such a huge mountain of posts that it's impossible for most outsiders to seriously evaluate them. This is a problem for both those who'd want to critique the concept, and for those who tentatively agree and would want to learn more about it.
Since it appears (do correct me if I'm wrong!) that Eliezer doesn't currently consider it worth the time and effort to do this, why not enlist the LW community in summarizing his arguments the best we can and submit them somewhere once we're done? Minds and Machines will be having a special issue on transhumanism, cognitive enhancement and AI, with a deadline for submission in January; that seems like a good opportunity for the paper. Their call for papers is asking for submissions that are around 4000 to 12 000 words.
The paper should probably
Devote the second half to discussing the question of FAI, with references to e.g. Joshua Greene's thesis and other relevant sources for establishing this argument.Carl Shulman says SIAI is already working on a separate paper on this, so it'd be better for us to concentrate merely on the FOOM aspect.I have created a wiki page for the draft version of the paper. Anyone's free to edit.