[ExI] Immeasurable hubris

[Tomaz Kristan]

Anders!

The least I want is some kind of arms race around those algorithms. So I
don't talk a lot about details. But it is very on-topic here to inform
about the possibility of quite sudden breakthrough here or there.And that
this breakthrough could lead to a chain of events which would surprise
almost anyone, except few.

It has always been so. Nobody really expected what then actually
happened.It's the way we (humanity)  operate. Unexpected leaps to a new
direction.

This superintelligence business, with all its logical consequences, is
about to begin, if it hasn't already. I say, forget anything else, the
biggest fish is to fry now.



On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> Tomaz Kristan <protokol2020 at gmail.com> , 7/9/2014 3:48 PM:
>
>
> 10 years ago I contemplated and co-wrote an algorithm evolver, you can
> download it here:
>
> http//www.critticall.com/Setup_Critticall137.exe
>
> It can do quite non-trivial things.
>
>
> Looks neat. Have you written up something about it? The demonstrations
> look good (love those packings) but it would be nice to be able to read how
> it works.
>
> Overall, genetic approaches to optimization are nice. But they mainly work
> when the fitness landscape is somewhat forgiving. That is why optimizing
> algorithms themselves is so tricky, and every little step forward is worth
> investigating deeply.
>
>
> Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford
> University
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