[ExI] Organization to "Speed Up" the Creation of AGI?

[Kevin G Haskell]

On Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:58:25 +0100, Stefano Vaj wrote:

On 18 December 2011 09:42, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

(Anders Sandberg's comment)"

> I think that is a bit of misrepresentation. I can only speak for us at
> FHI, but we would be fine with faster AGI development if we thought safe
> AGI was very likely or we were confident that it would be developed before
> AGI went critical. An early singularity reduces existential risk from
> everything that could happen while waiting for it. It also benefits
> existing people if it is a positive one.
>

(Stefano Vaj's Reply)

>>Given that unless something very dramatic happens the entire humankind -
>>defined as the set of all humans currently alive - is currently confronted
>>with an obvious extinction risk, or rather certitude, in a matter of
>>decades, out of aging if anything, it has always been unclear to me how
FHI
>>can reconcile what I think is fair to characterise as an utilitarian value
>>system with a primary concern for the dominance or not of bio-based
>>intelligences in the future.

>>But of course the same question could be asked to the Singularity
Institute.

I share your thoughts on that, Stefano. Well said.

Kevin
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