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Vladimir_Nesov comments on BOOK DRAFT: 'Ethics and Superintelligence' (part 2) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 23 February 2011 05:13:07PM 4 points [-]

While in context of your text it can be inferred that "optimism" refers to prevention of AI development, Tim's suggestion that "pessimism" could be substituted instead is a disingenuous way of proselytizing his own position, unrelated to what he was commenting on since this option would be doubly confusing if actually implemented.

Comment author: lukeprog 23 February 2011 05:54:19PM 2 points [-]

Huh. Well, anyway, I think it will help to clarify what I meant by optimism.

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 24 February 2011 09:38:16PM 1 point [-]

proselytizing his own position

Which is, for the uninitiated (link preferred) ? thx

Comment author: timtyler 25 February 2011 10:50:18PM *  0 points [-]

Efforts to halt the development of increasingly-powerful machine intelligences seem likely to be made by a faction of humanity labelled by the rest of the humans as terrorists.

So far there has mostly only been the unabomber - but there may be more - and it may not be very much fun.

Comment author: timtyler 24 February 2011 08:42:26PM 0 points [-]

I repudiate the accusation of Machiavellian manipulation.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 24 February 2011 09:25:59PM 1 point [-]

I suppose you could just raise your right hand.

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