Wei_Dai comments on A Proposed Adjustment to the Astronomical Waste Argument - LessWrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 27 May 2013 03:06:58PM 5 points [-]

If you think (as I do) that a machine superintelligence singleton is largely inevitable (Bostrom forthcoming)

I can grant the "machine superintelligence" part as largely inevitable, but why "singleton"? Are you suggesting that Bostrom has a good argument for the inevitability of such a singleton, that he hasn't written down anywhere except in his forthcoming book?

Comment author: lukeprog 27 May 2013 05:54:34PM 5 points [-]

To some degree, yes (I've seen a recent draft). But my point goes through without this qualification, so I've edited my original comment to remove "singleton."