Raiden comments on AI as a resolution to the Fermi Paradox. - Less Wrong

1 Post author: Raiden 02 March 2016 08:45PM

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Comment author: James_Miller 02 March 2016 10:18:06PM *  4 points [-]

Many humans fear AI, indicating that other intelligent species might also fear it and might consider not developing AI. I think the great filter is more likely something that no one fears but most industrialized species do. For example, if (in a universe similar to ours) because of a weird quirk of physics that you don't discover until after you solved string theory, building a radio destroys your planet then radios would be the cause of the great filter.

Comment author: Raiden 03 March 2016 05:04:44PM 1 point [-]

Many civilizations may fear AI, but maybe there's a super-complicated but persuasive proof of friendliness that convinces most AI researchers, but has a well-hidden flaw. That's probably a similar thing to what you're saying about unpredictable physics though, and the universe might look the same to us in either case.