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michaelcurzi comments on What does the world look like, the day before FAI efforts succeed? - Less Wrong Discussion

23 Post author: michaelcurzi 16 November 2012 08:56PM

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Comment author: michaelcurzi 18 November 2012 12:17:54AM 3 points [-]

Yeah, I've heard that argument before. The idea is that intelligence not only makes you better at stuff, but also impacts how you make decisions about what to work on.

The alternate hypothesis is that intelligence-amplified people would just get better at being crazy. Perhaps one could start to tease apart the hypotheses by distinguishing 'intelligence' from 'reflectiveness' and 'altruism', and trying to establish how those quantities interact.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 20 November 2012 04:40:18AM *  2 points [-]

Related point: High-IQ folks are more likely to cooperate in the prisoner's dilemna. (See Section 3 of this article.) Which suggests that they'd be more inclined to do altruistic stuff like make an AI that's friendly to everyone rather than an AI that serves their individual wishes.