Lumifer comments on AI risk, executive summary - LessWrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 07 April 2014 06:57:35PM *  2 points [-]

many barriers people stated an AI would never break have fallen

We are talking about the level of mainstream media, right? I doubt they have a good grasp of the progress in the AI field and superpowerful AIs are still associated with action movies.

Smarts and cunning tend to win (e.g. politics: Stalin, Pinochet, Mugabe)

Huh? Ruthlessness and cunning tend to win. Being dumb is, of course, a disadvantage (though it could be overcome: see Idi Amin Dada), but I am not aware that Stalin, Pinochet, or Mugabe were particularly smart.

Comment author: Vaniver 07 April 2014 07:44:40PM 0 points [-]

Mugabe

He's certainly bookish.