Trevor_Blake comments on AI ebook cover design brainstorming - Less Wrong

3 Post author: lukeprog 26 September 2013 11:49PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 27 September 2013 12:48:14AM 5 points [-]

A human and something much less intelligent than a human.

Comment author: Manfred 27 September 2013 02:27:29AM 4 points [-]

I like this. For example, a human holding a white mouse in one hand and looking at it.

The problem, though, is that once you have a human in the shot it's real hard to get someone looking at the book for the first time to identify with the white mouse. One strategy is to de-humanize the human - like maybe only have a human eye filling up the background, with the shot centered on a butterfly. example, sort of. Eh, seems pretty difficult now that I think about it more.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 27 September 2013 03:58:15AM *  9 points [-]

A mouse, a human, and a server rack, each bigger than the next, side by side against a black background. Scaled so that the difference in size between the mouse and the human is the same as the difference between the human and the server.

Comment author: ikrase 27 September 2013 05:01:04AM -1 points [-]

I like the idea of suggesting the recursion of human intelligence to machine superintelligence.

How about a hunter-gatherer working on making a spear or other primitive weapon, or maybe fire, in the foreground, and an ambiguously human-robot-cyborg figure in the background with a machine gun / nuclear generator?

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 27 September 2013 08:32:01AM 6 points [-]

a human holding a white mouse in one hand and looking at it.

And if you look carefully at the floor the human is standing on... it's a robotic hand! (The rest of the robot it outside of our view.)

Comment author: DanielVarga 28 September 2013 10:10:00PM 1 point [-]

The smaller thing could be a human, too. Giant, good looking but creepy child holding small vulnerable human in one hand, looking at it emotionlessly. But MIRI will not like this version, because they really want to avoid anthropomorphizing the AI.

Comment author: 9eB1 27 September 2013 12:55:57AM *  1 point [-]

A Darwinian image of a speck, a mouse, a monkey, a human, and a computer. Optionally, several computers, each exponentially larger with the last going completely off the edge of the page (i.e. building sized). Optionally, with the brains highlighted in some sort of x-ray kind of view.

Edit: Nevermind, I see this is a listed cliche. Well, it's cliche for a reason.