[extropy-chat] Timescale to Singularity

[Marc Geddes]

>Alright. You place your hopes on being able to program
>the A.I. to be nice to you. I'll place my efforts on
>being smarter and more clever than the A.I. That's
>just good advice from my friend Chuck Darwin.
 
You're dreaming.  A self-improving seed AI undergoing 'hard take-off' would surpass your intelligence level in minutes.  
 
As to being nice, the 'Morality' modality seems to be a HUGE intellectual strong-point for me.  I believe I was born with a freak intuitive sense of morality which will enable me to swiftly cut through to the solution without much thought.  That's why I'll give Wilson, Yudkowsky and all the rest a run for their money.  It's not a symmetic situation.  I can get most of the answer to the problem of general intelligence simply by studying papers and books for a year or two.  The other AI researchers, on the other hand, won't find even rudimentary answers to morality anywhere.  Should be a good race. 
 
Hee hee
 


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