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Anyone who's been following this idea as it metastasised might be happy to know that I'm now a retired amateur endocrinologist. This is as good an argument as I'm ever going to make, and it should be turned over to adults now. Thank you all for your helpful comments and suggestions. Everyone's been wonderful.
Eric Drexler pointed out to me the other day that there probably is a path to superintelligent help without bringing on the apocalypse, so maybe we can get to paradise after all. His argument is very good. That looks like it might be more interesting than endocrinology, which seems to be more of a social problem than anything I can help with.
Out of curiosity, does he mean uploading researchers?
No, he's got some cool arguments why we can make superintelligent tools without making fully general intelligences. My preliminary feeling is that he's right. I need to think about it though, and so do we all!
Screw Fibromyalgia. I'm recovered (for now). I have lots of practice not caring about things that affect hundreds of millions, and this just goes in the 'the world is mad, everyone is wrong' bin. But seriously, I am never trusting anything medical again. Whether I'm right or wrong, what a bunch of incompetents. I wonder what it is they think they're for?
If there's any way that I can read more about this, I'd be extremely interested.
Gram, he's at FHI in Oxford these days, they have a technical report (FHI TR 2015-3) by him. That's public, and I've got his permission to spread it, but I can't find a link. There's no way I can see to attach a pdf here, but if you give me your e-mail address I'm happy to send you a copy.
He also gave a talk at CSER in Cambridge which went into lots more detail, but not written up yet. The tech report looks really important on its own though.