Nick_Tarleton comments on The mind-killer - Less Wrong

23 Post author: ciphergoth 02 May 2009 04:49PM

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Comment author: Nominull 03 May 2009 10:34:12PM 0 points [-]

Consider: humanity is an intelligence, one not particularly friendly to, say, the fieldmouse. Fieldmice are not yet extinct.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 04 May 2009 04:31:59AM 2 points [-]

Humans satisfice, and not very well at that compared to what an AGI could do. If we effectively optimized for... almost any goal not referring to fieldmice... fieldmice would be extinct.