[extropy-chat] Affective computing: Candy bars for the soul

[Alex Ramonsky]

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

>
>
> I could be surprised, but what Laura presages is probably NOT a good 
> thing.  Transhumanism needs to lose the optimism about outcomes.  
> Nobody is taking into account the fact that problems are hard and 
> humans are stupid.  Watch this space for serious developments in some 
> unknown amount of time, my wild guess being a decade, and quite 
> possibly nothing happening if "faking it well" turns out to be 
> AI-complete.
>
Thankyou for putting so succinctly into words _exactly_ what I mean when 
I say someone is going to create an Artificial Stupidity, real soon. And 
it's not going to be user friendly in exactly the same way that burgers 
aren't.
AR