[ExI] The Power of Intelligence

[t.theodorus ibrahim]

Kudos Eliezer. Kudos :-)

Theo

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Yudkowsky
Sent: 11 July 2007 05:06
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Subject: Re: [ExI] The Power of Intelligence

Damien Broderick wrote:
> At 07:54 PM 7/10/2007 -0700, Eli wrote:
> 
>> http://www.singinst.org/blog/2007/07/10/the-power-of-intelligence/
> 
> 
> "If you saw a movie of a nuclear explosion going off, and you were 
> told an Earthly life form had done it, you would never in your wildest 
> dreams imagine that the Soft Pink Things could be responsible. After 
> all, Soft Pink Things aren't radioactive."
> 
> Not until after the nuclear explosion, anyway. But those were the Soft 
> Yellowish Things, I guess. And in Australia and the Pacific, the Soft 
> Black or Brownish Things.
> 
> Not your point, I know. But a point.

That's what I get for thinking in cliches.  Fixed.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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