Similar to the monthly Rationality Quotes threads, this is a thread for memorable quotes about Artificial General Intelligence.
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I was assuming the latter. As to the former, again: hence my caveat. I don't much care what the possibility of AGI mindspace is, I've already arbitrarily limited the kinds I'm talking about to a very narrow window.
So objecting to my valuative statement regarding that narrow window with the statement, "But there's no reason to think it would be in that window!" -- just shows that you're lacking reading skills, to be quite frank.
I don't much care what the range of possible values is for f(x) for x=0..10000000, when I've already asked the question what is f(10)? If it's a sentient entity that is recursively intelligent, then at some point it alone would become more "cognizant" than the entire human race put together.
If you were put in a situation where you had to choose between letting the world be populated by cows, or by people, which would you choose?