ciphergoth comments on LINK: Google research chief: 'Emergent artificial intelligence? Hogwash!' - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ciphergoth 19 May 2013 09:38:56AM 4 points [-]

You guys have had a discussion like this here on LW before, and you mention your disagreement with Carl Schulman in your foom economics paper. This is a complex subject and I don't expect you all to come to agreement, or even perfect understanding of each other's positions, in a short period of time, but it seems like you know surprisingly little about these other positions. Given its importance to your mission, I'm surprised you haven't set aside a day for the three of you and whoever else you think might be needed to at least come to understand each other's estimates on when foom might happen.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 May 2013 10:53:53AM 3 points [-]

We spent quite a while on this once, but that was a couple of years ago and apparently things got out of date since then (also I think this was pre-Luke). It does seem like we need to all get together again and redo this, though I find that sort of thing very difficult and indeed outright painful when there's not an immediate policy question in play to ground everything.