<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Jul 12, 2016, at 10:04 AM, Dave Sill <<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com">sparge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Superintelligence: high, moderate, high: 18</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Maybe my own sub-super intelligence is the problem, but I don't understand why superintelligence is considered important. AI/singularity fans seem to consider it practically a superpower, but I think it's overrated. Am I wrong?<br></div></div></blockquote><br><div>In practical terms, then of it as a super-problem-solver. You have it (or them) and if they are benign you can much more easily solve much of the other problems. Or so the story goes.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my latest Kindle book, "The Late Mr. Gurlitt," at:</span></div><a dir="ltr" href="http://mybook.to/Gurlitt" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://mybook.to/Gurlitt</font></a></div></div></div></body></html>