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James_Miller comments on The challenges of bringing up AIs - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: James_Miller 10 December 2012 04:14:26PM 9 points [-]

It might be helpful to greatly raise the intelligence of a biological creature that had a very different evolutionary path than we did, such as the octopus, to give us a bit more insight into the general relationship between intelligence and friendliness.

Comment author: Zaine 10 December 2012 09:07:51PM 0 points [-]

Any suggestions on how to do this?

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 10 December 2012 10:49:18PM 3 points [-]

Aggressive breeding program?

If we went transgenic, that would A) be unlikely to work, and B) interfere with the very effect we are trying to test.

Comment author: James_Miller 10 December 2012 11:37:27PM 0 points [-]

For (B) not if we took genes from non-mammals.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 11 December 2012 03:09:53PM 0 points [-]

Octopi are already the pinnacle of non-mammalian intelligence, so far as I know. What else would you bring in?

Comment author: evand 12 December 2012 05:51:35AM 1 point [-]

Tool-using birds are smart enough that there might be useful stuff there. How you do anything useful with that and an octopus is beyond me, but no more so than doing something useful with mammal genes and an octopus.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 16 December 2012 02:09:12AM 1 point [-]

Physically stretch and merge brains using steam cells.