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

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Comment author: vallinder 27 May 2013 08:40:45PM *  5 points [-]

Not sure whether I do think otherwise. But if Luke had written "smarter-than-human machine intelligence" instead, I probably wouldn't have reacted. In comparison, "machine superintelligence singleton" is much more specific, indicating both (i) that the machine intelligence will be vastly smarter than us, and (ii) that multipolar outcomes are very unlikely. Though perhaps there are very convincing arguments for both of these claims.