Rain comments on Muehlhauser-Wang Dialogue - Less Wrong

24 Post author: lukeprog 22 April 2012 10:40PM

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Comment author: Rain 23 April 2012 12:55:51PM * 0 points [-]

My comparison would be someone screaming at Dmitri Ivanovsky in 1892 "do not research viruses until you know that this research is safe!".

Well, bioengineered viruses are on the list of existential threats...

Comment author: Jack 23 April 2012 02:12:53PM 6 points [-]

And there aren't naturally occurring AIs scampering around killing millions of people... It's a poor analogy.

Comment author: Rain 23 April 2012 04:16:29PM * 7 points [-]

"Natural AI" is an oxymoron. There are lots of NIs (natural intelligences) scampering around killing millions of people.

And we're only a little over a hundred years into virus research, much less on intelligence. Give it another hundred.