[ExI] Obama keen on brain mapping

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> Why do you think everybody will be super-intelligent? What about super-stupid,
> super-tiny, super-fast? Diseases kill more people than sharks do.

### Don't forget super-tiny and quite intelligent - maybe we will all
hear the Bloodmusic one day.

I used to think that our (meaning, human or roughly human minds
carrying memories of being flesh humans, whether still physically
embodied or uploaded) chances of survival in the singularity were less
than 10% but now for some reason I think they might be as high as 50%.

I don't know if this due to just a change in serotonin levels in my
brain, or whether I have been subconsciously processing relevant
inputs and shifting my prior. Some say that a singleton AI is
unlikely, that multiple centers of innovation, firmly enmeshed in the
legal system, cross-licensed and IP-protected, will simultaneously
gestate multiple, balancing AIs, giving us enough time to catch up to
the speed and computational power levels needed to either remain in
power, or at least have enough leverage to protect ourselves from
being overwritten.

Rafal