Open Thread March 31 - April 7 2014

beoShaffer

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I just finished reading Eliezer's April Fools Day post, where he illustrated how good society could be. A future society filled with rational people, that is structured the way Eliezer describes, and continues with linear progression in technology would be pretty amazing. What is it that the intelligence explosion would provide of value that this society wouldn't?

Put differently, diff(intelligenceExplosion, dath ilan).

There are two main differences I can see.

First, superintelligence can create a better utopia. After astronomical amounts of time, dath ilan may have the technology necessary, but I suspect that they would lack the understanding of their own utility function that FAI would have. They are also not immune to politics, and will act suboptimally because of that.

Second, there's a not insignificant chance of dath ilan being wiped out by some kind of existential risk before they're advanced enough to prevent it.

0ChristianKl12y

dath ilan seems to have a specific kind of political correctness when it comes to not talking about specific issues that different from out one's and I don't think an intelligence explosion is simply going to change this. .

2shokwave12y

Well, in dath ilan, people do still die, even though they're routinely cryonically frozen. I suspect with an intelligence explosion death becomes very rare (or horrifically common, like, extinction).

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