red75 comments on Q&A with experts on risks from AI #2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: red75 11 January 2012 01:37:17AM *  1 point [-]

What bothers me in The Basic AI Drives is a complete lack of quantitativeness.

Temporal discount rate isn't even mentioned. No analysis of self-improvement/getting-things-done tradeoff. Influence of explicit / implicit utility function dichotomy on self-improvement aren't considered.

Comment author: multifoliaterose 11 January 2012 02:54:01AM 1 point [-]

I find some of your issues with the piece legitimate but stand by my characterization of the most serious existential threat from AI being of the type described in the therein.