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CarlShulman comments on Modest Superintelligences - Less Wrong Discussion

20 Post author: Wei_Dai 22 March 2012 12:29AM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 22 March 2012 01:29:06AM 16 points [-]

highly educated and indoctrinated from birth to work collaboratively towards some goal

Doing this very reliably seems more fantastical than the intelligence enhancement part.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 22 March 2012 02:42:18AM 6 points [-]

Do we need "very reliably"? If not, feeding them Eliezer's Sequences at a young age might work well enough.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 23 March 2012 05:16:30AM *  3 points [-]

Do we need "very reliably"?

I'm inclined to think not. IMHO it's better to work on an easy plan that probably won't backfire than a very hard plan that almost certainly won't backfire given dangers outside of the planners' control...

If not, feeding them Eliezer's Sequences at a young age might work well enough.

Beware the young male rebel effect...