betterthanwell comments on Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at Cambridge makes headlines. - Less Wrong

19 Post author: betterthanwell 26 November 2012 08:56PM

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Comment author: betterthanwell 27 November 2012 10:46:32PM *  6 points [-]

Welcome, and thanks for the comments.

Even the term getting out there is a positive!

Agreed.

If journalism demands that you stick to Hollywood references when communicating a concept,
it wouldn't be so bad if journalists managed to understand and convey the distinction between:

  • The wholly implausible, worse than useless Terminator humanoid hunter-killer robot scenario.
  • The not completely far-fetched Skynet launches every nuke, humanity dies scenario.
Comment author: RomeoStevens 28 November 2012 01:44:15AM *  2 points [-]

I think it works as a hierarchy of increasingly complex models. Readers will stop at whichever rung they are comfortable with depending on their curiosity and background.

My real life conversations on X-risk tend to go
Terminator
Drones
Skynet
Specialized AI
General AI
Friendly AI