Stuart_Armstrong comments on General purpose intelligence: arguing the Orthogonality thesis - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 15 May 2012 10:23AM

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Comment author: shminux 16 May 2012 03:55:21PM 2 points [-]

Is your goal to affect their point of view? Or is it something else? For example, maybe your true target audience is those who donate to your organization and you just want to have a paper published to show them that they are not wasting their money. In any case, the paper should target your real audience, whatever it may be.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 May 2012 04:00:07PM 4 points [-]

I want a paper to point those who make the thoughtless "the AI will be smart, so it'll be nice" argument to. I want a paper that forces the moral realists (using the term very broadly) to make specific counter arguments. I want to convince some of these people that AI is a risk, even if it's not conscious or rational according to their definitions. I want something to build on to move towards convincing the AGI researchers. And I want a publication.