I almost tweeted this last night, but @sama putting AI on a list of failed predictions seems not-even-wrong to me. http://blog.samaltman.com/technology-predictions …
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When people said things like "heaver than air flight is impossible" that was negation of a well-posed, falsifiable proposition.
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So treating anti-Scary-AI positions as equivalent to denying heavier-than-air flight is a category error. You can't negate an ill-posed idea
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@vgr The real problem with Altman's list is predictions have sometimes been too optimistic and sometimes been too pessimistic.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@vgr Doomsday cults not the right reference class; superhuman AI has plausible mechanisms by which it could happen in a natural universe.
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