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endoself comments on Some Thoughts on Singularity Strategies - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: Wei_Dai 13 July 2011 02:41AM

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Comment author: endoself 13 July 2011 03:30:59AM 4 points [-]

We humans seem at best just barely smart enough to build a superintelligent UFAI.

Humans seem just barely smart enough to do many things, especially in the period when doing those things is just becoming possible.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 13 July 2011 06:40:05AM 0 points [-]

That sentence makes more sense if you consider it within a time horizon in which strategic considerations are relevant. See my reply to GuySrinivasan. (I probably should have made that clearer in the post.)