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Comment author: WrongBot 21 August 2010 12:35:05AM 3 points [-]

Anyway, the huge modern wealth inequalities are well established - and projecting them into the future doesn't seem especially controversial.

Projecting anything into a future with non-human intelligences is controversial. You have made an incredibly large assumption without realizing it. Please update.

Comment author: timtyler 21 August 2010 06:24:12AM *  0 points [-]

If you actually want your questions answered, then money is society's representation of utility - and I think there will probably be something like that in the future - no matter how far out you go. What you may not find further out is "people". However, I wasn't talking about any of that, really. I just meant while there are still money and people with bank accounts around.

Comment author: WrongBot 21 August 2010 08:07:57PM 0 points [-]

A few levels up, you said,

Machine intelligence probably has the potential to result in enormous weath inequality.

My dispute is with the notion that people with bank accounts and machine intelligence will coexist for a non-trivial amount of time.

Comment author: timtyler 21 August 2010 08:23:45PM 0 points [-]

We have been building intelligent machines for many decades now. If you are talking about something that doesn't yet exist, I think you would be well advised to find another term for it.

Comment author: WrongBot 21 August 2010 10:44:46PM 0 points [-]

Apologies; I assumed you were using "machine intelligence" as a synonym for AI, as wikipedia does.

Comment author: timtyler 21 August 2010 10:48:56PM *  0 points [-]

Machine intelligence *is - more-or-less - a synonym for artificial intelligence.

Neither term carries the implication of human-level intelligence.