Jack comments on The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 July 2013 06:46PM

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Comment author: Jack 24 July 2013 10:20:49PM 13 points [-]

So picture a trillion planets each with a trillion humans on them

There is almost no way this hypothetical provokes accurate intuitions about a 300 IQ. It's hard to ask someone to picture something they are literally incapable of picturing and I suspect people hearing this will just default to "someone a little smarter than the smartest person I know of".

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 25 July 2013 08:41:57PM 4 points [-]

I know I'm doing that and I can't stop doing it. "A trillion planets each with a trillion humans on them" is something important, but I can't visualize it at all.

Comment author: Baughn 27 July 2013 07:23:58PM 1 point [-]

I'm picturing someone with the optimization power of the entire human civilization, which seems a little more tractable.

It's also based on nothing whatsoever, but it's at least in the right direction? I hope.