I've created a new website for my ebook Facing the Intelligence Explosion:
Sometime this century, machines will surpass human levels of intelligence and ability, and the human era will be over. This will be the most important event in Earth’s history, and navigating it wisely may be the most important thing we can ever do.
Luminaries from Alan Turing and Jack Good to Bill Joy and Stephen Hawking have warned us about this. Why do I think they’re right, and what can we do about it?
Facing the Intelligence Explosion is my attempt to answer those questions.
This page is the dedicated discussion page for Facing the Intelligence Explosion.
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Re: From Skepticism to Technical Rationality
Here, Luke neglects to mention that...
The lack of responses and negative scores on my comment show me that (1) it is easier to vote down a post than post a reasoned response, and (2) it is easier to scoff at opponents and think them fools than confront one's own self-deceptive behaviors, the very purpose of Luke's post.
No, it is simply that LW has covered these issues and considers them solved* and so downvotes/ignores people asserting otherwise.
*the weight of evidence points towards evolution, and every point proposed by proponents of creationism and ID has been refuted (do you have a distinctly novel and original argument for creationism/ID? If you don't, then you are wasting your time).