Richard_Hollerith2 comments on Trying to Try - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 October 2008 08:58AM

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Comment author: Richard_Hollerith2 01 October 2008 06:29:45PM 4 points [-]

He says he isn't ready to write code. If you don't try to code up a general artificial intelligence you don't succeed, but you don't fail either.

Would people stop saying that! It is highly irresponsible in the context of general AI! (Well, at least the self-improving form of general AI, a.k.a., seed AI. I'm not qualified to say whether a general AI not deliberately designed for self-improvement might self-improve anyways.)

Noodling around with general-AI designs is the most probable of the prospective causes of the extinction of Earth-originating intelligence and life. Global warming is positively benign in comparison.

Eliezer of course will not be influenced by taunts of, "Show us the code," but less responsible people might be.