[extropy-chat] Timescale to Singularity

[The Avantguardian]

--- Marc Geddes <marc_geddes at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:

> >Alright. You place your hopes on being able to
> program
> >the A.I. to be nice to you. I'll place my efforts
> on
> >being smarter and more clever than the A.I. That's
> >just good advice from my friend Chuck Darwin.
>  
> You're dreaming.  A self-improving seed AI
> undergoing 'hard take-off' would surpass your
> intelligence level in minutes.  

No I'm not. I am just saying that any A.I. that claims
I am obsolescent would need to prove it to me
personally. In a fight to the death, you would be a
moron not to bet on yourself.

>  
> As to being nice, the 'Morality' modality seems to
> be a HUGE intellectual strong-point for me.  I
> believe I was born with a freak intuitive sense of
> morality which will enable me to swiftly cut through
> to the solution without much thought.  That's why
> I'll give Wilson, Yudkowsky and all the rest a run
> for their money.  It's not a symmetic situation.  I
> can get most of the answer to the problem of general
> intelligence simply by studying papers and books for
> a year or two.  The other AI researchers, on the
> other hand, won't find even rudimentary answers to
> morality anywhere.  Should be a good race. 
>  
> Hee hee
>  

Sometimes you guys crack me up. All this talk about
how mankind must break free of the mental shackles of
religion and superstition and yet you are all too
willing to bow down and worship a great golden
number-crunching calf of your own creation. Bring me
before your idol and I will break it. That is what
true iconoclasts do.
  

The Avantguardian 
is 
Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't attempted to contact us." 
-Bill Watterson

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