Let me get this straight: you want to recruit high-end geeks to combat a hypothetical threat from other very smart people who might invent computers so smart that they can program themselves to be way smarter than their inventors and rather quickly swing completely out of control and cause "human extinction."
How is this a problem? Do you read the news? Or look at television? If you can distract yourself from apocalyptic navel-gazing long enough to take in the world around us--and that does include you--you might observe that we are so much farther along on the march to that goal than the computers that we might create in some remote future... (read more)
Let me get this straight: you want to recruit high-end geeks to combat a hypothetical threat from other very smart people who might invent computers so smart that they can program themselves to be way smarter than their inventors and rather quickly swing completely out of control and cause "human extinction."
How is this a problem? Do you read the news? Or look at television? If you can distract yourself from apocalyptic navel-gazing long enough to take in the world around us--and that does include you--you might observe that we are so much farther along on the march to that goal than the computers that we might create in some remote future... (read more)