With whom shall I diavlog?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Bloggingheads.tv can't exactly call up, say, the President of France and get him to do a diavlog, but they have some street cred with mid-rank celebrities and academics. With that in mind, how would you fill in this blank?

"I would really love to see a diavlog between Yudkowsky and ____________."

Dan Dennett

I would love to hear EY and DD discuss the technological singularity, and hear Dennett's opinion on the humanist response to this issue.

From the video linked to below by TimTyler, Dennett says "the idea of the singularity is possible in principle, but the idea that it is in the near future is just not plausible. I disagree with Kurzweil... "

It seems Dan has read RaymondK, but not EY. Thus a debate between Dennett and EY on the proposition: "P(smarter than human AI this century) > 5%" would be highly productive. I would expect one of EY and DD to have a major change of opinion as a result of such a debate, if it went on for long enough.

I would love to see this.

0timtyler17y

How hard the software will be is an issue to which currently nobody really knows the answer at the moment - AFAICS. We might all have our gut feelings - but I think nobody who is trying to be rational really knows - or even has a particularly low level of uncertainty just now. Commodity hardware won't get there until at least 2017 - and software lags behind hardware - so probably some time after that we will have affordable machines that can do a lot of what our brains can - but how much after that... my assessment is that nobody really knows.

5timtyler17y

FWIW, Dan has a video on that issue here. Possible, but far off, he says - citing software issues: http://bigthink.com/ideas/daniel-dennett-discusses-the-problem-of-robotic-warfare

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