[extropy-chat] SIAI seeking seed AI programmer candidates

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 06:50:24AM -0400, Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote:

> No.  We are not here to wipe out the human species by brute-forcing an AI. 

So you keep saying, yes.

>  If we cannot do it on off-the-shelf hardware, we should not be in the 
> business.  This is not about computing power, never has been.  I want a 

You're being unrealistic. I guess we should be thankful for that.

> small handful of world-class geniuses that can understand the basics, and 
> perhaps a few non-world-class geniuses to carry out prespecified tasks that 
> don't require Bayesian enlightenment.  I am not throwing people at the 
> problem and I am not throwing computing power at the problem.  I know 
> better than that now.  That is just what people talk about when they have 
> no idea what they are doing or how to solve the problem, and no, Eugen, 
> that is not a request for yet another lecture about how mys-TER-ri-ous the 
> problem is.  I am not here to screw around with no clue what I am doing. 

Very good. Few other AI people have your scruples.

> That is just a fancy way of committing suicide, as I know, now that I 
> understand some of the rules.  Stop making up our job requirements for us. 
>  Start your own thread if you want to discuss your own AI project.  Thank 
>  you.

Given that I don't think that really smart AI is a good idea, I'd rather not.

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