Brihaspati comments on Risks from AI and Charitable Giving - Less Wrong

2 Post author: XiXiDu 13 March 2012 01:54PM

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Comment author: Yvain 13 March 2012 10:01:38PM *  29 points [-]

Imagine a group of 100 world-renowned scientists and military strategists. Could such a group easily wipe away the Roman empire when beamed back in time?

Imagine a group of 530 Spaniards...

At the risk of confirming every negative stereotype RationalWiki and the like have of us...have you read the Sequences? I'm reluctant to write a full response to this, but I think large parts of the Sequences were written to address some of these ideas.

Comment author: Brihaspati 14 March 2012 01:29:17AM 8 points [-]

I'm afraid I had the same reaction. XiXiDu's post seems to take the "shotgun" approach of listing every thought that popped into XiXiDu's head, without applying much of a filter. It's exhausting to read. Or, as one person I know put it, "XiXiDu says a lot of random shit."