AlexMennen comments on Hawking/Russell/Tegmark/Wilczek on dangers of Superintelligent Machines [link] - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AlexMennen 22 April 2014 03:01:42AM *  0 points [-]

This article was pretty lacking in actual argument. I feel like if I hadn't already been concerned about AI risk, reading that wouldn't have changed my mind. I guess the fact that the authors are pretty high-powered authority figures makes it still somewhat significant, though.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 22 April 2014 07:23:44PM *  10 points [-]

The argument is simply an argument from authority. What more could you reasonably expect for six paragraphs and the mega-sized inferential distance between physicists/computer scientists and the readers of Huffington Post?