Giles comments on Criticisms of intelligence explosion - Less Wrong

15 Post author: lukeprog 22 November 2011 05:42PM

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Comment author: Giles 24 November 2011 04:39:10AM 12 points [-]

Something about this page bothers me - the responses are included right there with the criticisms. It just gives off the impression that a criticism isn't going to appear until lukeprog has a response to it, or that he is going to write the criticism in a way that makes it easy to respond to, or something.

Maybe it's just me. But if I wanted to write this page, I would try and put myself into the mind of the other side and try to produce the most convincing smackdown of the intelligence explosion concept that I could. I'd think about what the responses would be, but only so that I could get the obvious responses to those responses in first. In other words, aim for DH7.

The responses could be collected and put on another page, or included here when this page is a bit more mature. Does anyone think this approach would help?

Comment author: antigonus 24 November 2011 05:40:29AM *  4 points [-]

I had the same reaction. The post reads like singularity apologetics.

Comment author: lavalamp 24 November 2011 05:45:59AM 1 point [-]

That is much more constructively put than my comment.