Stuart_Armstrong comments on The Great Filter is early, or AI is hard - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 29 August 2014 04:17PM

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Comment author: Mac 30 August 2014 07:46:55PM 1 point [-]

So the Great Filter (preventing the emergence of star-spanning civilizations) must strike before AI could be developed.

Maybe AI is the Great Filter, even if it is friendly.

The friendly AI could determine that colonization of what we define as “our universe” is unnecessary or detrimental to our goals. Seems unlikely, but I wouldn’t rule it out.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 01 September 2014 06:02:53PM 2 points [-]

Not colonising the universe - many moralities could go with that.

Allowing potential rivals to colonise the universe... that's much rarer.