WalterL comments on Politics Is Upstream of AI - Less Wrong

4 Post author: iceman 28 September 2016 09:47PM

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Comment author: WalterL 29 September 2016 02:42:11PM 4 points [-]

This article is an example of looking at the world pragmatically, and acknowledging an actual truth. Kudos to the writers.

It reminds me of the scene at the start of Bad Boyz 2, where the drug kingpin has a giant pile of paper cash, and rats are nesting in it.

Kingpin: "This is a STUPID problem to have." ... Kingpin: "But it IS a problem. Hire exterminators."

Similarly, politics getting in the way of transforming the world with its irksome interest in transforming the world is exactly the sort of thing that clear eyed futurists need to figure on.