[ExI] Hard Takeoff

Samantha Atkins sjatkins at mac.com
Sat Nov 20 04:42:42 UTC 2010


On Nov 19, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Stefano Vaj wrote:

> On 19 November 2010 07:26, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>> Our current efforts might influence the AGI but we have no way to prove it.
>> Backing away from the AGI development effort is not really an option, or
>> rather not a good one, for without an AGI, time will take us all anyway.  I
>> give us a century, two centuries as a one sigma case.
> 
> What remains very vague and fuzzy in such discourse is why an
> "intelligent" (whatever it may mean...) computer would be more
> "dangerous" (whatever it may mean...) per se than a non-intelligent
> one of equivalent power.
> 

Intelligence is a type and source of power.  That is the point of AGI.  There is no equivalence of power between an AGI and a computer that merely has the same amount of raw computational ability.




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