Wei Dai has cast some doubts on the AI-based approach
Assuming that it is unlikely we will obtain fully satisfactory answers to all of the questions before the Singularity occurs, does it really make sense to pursue an AI-based approach?
I am curious if he has "another approach" he wrote about; I am not brushed up on sl4/ob/lw prehistory.
Personally I have some interest in increasing intelligence capability on individual level via "tools of thought" kind of approach, BCI in the limit. There is not much discussion of it here.
No, I haven't written in any detail about any other approach. I think when I wrote that post I was mainly worried that Eliezer/SIAI wasn't thinking enough about what other approaches might be more likely to succeed than FAI. After my visit to SIAI a few months ago, I became much less worried because I saw evidence that plenty of SIAI people were thinking seriously about this question.
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