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

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Comment author: MugaSofer 01 January 2013 04:26:00AM -1 points [-]

Today's orgaisations are surely better candidates for self-improvement of intelligence than today's machines are.

Are tomorrows' organizations better than tomorrows' machines? Because that's what is under discussion here.

Comment author: timtyler 01 January 2013 01:39:04PM *  0 points [-]

Yes, in some ways - assuming we are talking about a time when there are still lots of humans around - since organisations are a superset of humans and machines and so can combine the strengths of both.

No doubt eventually humans will become unemployable - but not until machines can do practically all their jobs better than them. That period covers an important era which many of us are concerned with.

Comment author: MugaSofer 01 January 2013 02:44:11PM -1 points [-]

Ah, I didn't realize you were including machines here - organizations are usually assumed to be composed of people, but I suppose a GAI could count as a "person" for this purpose.

However, isn't this dependent on the AI not going foom? Because if it does go foom, I can't see a superintelligence remaining under any pre-singularity organization's control.

Comment author: timtyler 01 January 2013 05:51:01PM *  0 points [-]

I didn't realize you were including machines here - organizations are usually assumed to be composed of people [...]

I can't say I've ever heard of that one. For example, Wikipedia has this:

An organisation (or organization – see spelling differences) is a social entity that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment.

If you are not considering the possibility of artifacts being components of organizations, that may explain some of the cross-talk.