taw comments on The Importance of Self-Doubt - Less Wrong

23 Post author: multifoliaterose 19 August 2010 10:47PM

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Comment author: taw 22 August 2010 04:08:08AM 0 points [-]

What do you mean by a weak link?

The part where development of AGI fooms immediately into superintelligence and destroys the world. Evidence for it in not even circumstantial, it is fictional.

Comment author: xamdam 22 August 2010 02:05:23PM 1 point [-]

Ok, of course it's fictional - hasn't happened yet!

Still, when I imagine something that is smarter than man who created it, it seems it would be able to improve itself.I would bet on that; I do not see a strong reason why this would not happen. What about you? Are you with Hanson on this one?