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JoshuaZ comments on [LINK] Author's Note 119: Shameless Begging - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 12 March 2015 12:44:00AM 0 points [-]

Vernor Vinge warned about AI causing the end of the human race back in 1993.

I.J. Good also warned about it in the 1960s.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 13 March 2015 08:28:49AM 0 points [-]

Indeed, although since this was before the internet, it didn't start any sort of movement.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 13 March 2015 02:00:25PM 3 points [-]

That may not be the only reason that didn't get off the ground as a movement. Movements have existed before the internet. However, in a different way the internet may matter: a world with internet and modern computers may make something like a superintelligent AI more viscerally plausible as a possibility.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 15 March 2015 12:03:48PM 1 point [-]

Movements certainly have existed before the net, but generally where there is a high enough density of potential members to organise via word of mouth and print media. With the possible exception of a few places such as Silicon Valley, I don't think that exists in this case.

I do agree with you that in many ways superintelligence seems more plausible given modern technology, but OTOH people are cautious after the AI winters.