[ExI] NO to the "Statement on Superintelligence"

[Giulio Prisco]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat
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> On Sun, Oct 26, 2025, 3:23 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> My latest @Mindplex_AI article. I strongly criticize the "Statement on
>> Superintelligence" recently issued by the Future of Life Institute. I
>> think their proposed ban on artificial superintelligence (ASI)
>> research is misguided and potentially dangerous.
>> https://magazine.mindplex.ai/post/the-misguided-crusade-against-superintelligence
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> I wouldn't worry about it. Pronouncements by institutes can't stop evolutionary forces which have persisted for billions of years, and which  account for over 99% of variation in the human population, economy, and rate of technological change.
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Exactly. The forces of cosmic evolution, of which the past and future
evolution on this planet are local examples.
I don't worry too much about the crusade against superintelligence,
because it is doomed to fail. There are too many powerful interests
(and also some armchair philosophers like me) aligned in the opposite
direction.

> See these slides for the references:
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> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18jn51f6DXMykCAL6gjZilK27TXAZielm5djcnHuh-7k/
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> Jason
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