Comment on Superintelligence 8: Cognitive superpowers

Sat, 08 Nov 2014 17:48:57 GMT

I'll coin the term Monolithing Multipolar for what I think you mean here, one stable structure that has different modes activated at different times, and these modes don't share goals, like a human - specially like a schizophrenic one.

The problem with Monolithic Multipolarity is that it is fragile. In humans, what causes us to behave differently and want different things at different times is not accessible for revision, otherwise, each party may have an incentive to steal the other's time. An AI would need not to deal with such triviality, since, by definition of explosive recursively-self improving it can rewrite it-selves.

We need other people, but Bostrom doesn't let simple things left out easily.

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