PhilGoetz comments on "Outside View!" as Conversation-Halter - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 February 2010 05:53AM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 27 February 2010 04:42:52AM -1 points [-]

Regarding the issue of FAI as Santa, wouldn't the same statement apply to the industrial revolution?

The industrial revolution gives you stuff. Santa gives you what you want. When I read people's dreams of a future in which an all-knowing benevolent Friendly AI provides them with everything they want forever, it weirds me out to think these are the same people who ridicule Christians. I've read interpretations of Friendly AI that suggest a Friendly AI is so smart, it can provide people with things that are logically inconsistent. But can a Friendly AI make a rock so big that it can't move it?

Comment author: MichaelVassar 01 March 2010 02:46:46PM 0 points [-]

Citation needed.

The economy gives you what you want. Cultural snobbishness gives you what you should want. Next...