Musings on the Yudkowsky-Hanson debate from 2011.
After all sorts of interesting technological things happening in some undetermined point in the feature, will we see some small nucleus that control all resources or will we see a civilisation-wide large-scale participation in these things going down? [Robin Hanson, 2011]
What is singularity? It means something different than it used to. Originally, singularity is the breakdown in Vinge's ability to model the future, beyond the technological creation of intelligence smarter than humans. Or as IJ Good explains the intelligence explosion – "smarter minds building smarter minds".
"The fastest form of intelligence explosion is an AI rewriting its own source code". This is Yudkowsky's 2011 scenario – "a... (read 1156 more words →)
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