jsteinhardt comments on Intelligence explosion in organizations, or why I'm not worried about the singularity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 27 December 2012 04:18:47PM 2 points [-]

The argument in the post is not that AGI isn't more powerful than organizations, it is that organizations are also very powerful, and probably sufficiently powerful that they will create huge issues before AGI creates huge issues.

Comment author: falenas108 27 December 2012 11:29:08PM 2 points [-]

Yes. I was pointing out that the thing that makes AGI dangerous, i.e. recursive improvement, does not apply to organizations.

Comment author: timtyler 29 December 2012 01:58:21PM 0 points [-]

I was pointing out that the thing that makes AGI dangerous, i.e. recursive improvement, does not apply to organizations.

You are claiming that organisations don't improve? Or that they don't improve themselves? Or that improving themselves doesn't count as a form of recursion? None of these positions seems terribly defensible to me.