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Author of The End of Faith, The Moral Landscape, Waking Up, and other bestselling books published in over 20 languages. Host of the Waking Up podcast.

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    1. Sam Harris‏Verified account @SamHarrisOrg 24 May 2015

      Sam Harris Retweeted Brett Hall

      "It's close" is debatable (5 years or 50?), but this article doesn't address the danger at all.https://twitter.com/ToKTeacher/status/602260717522194433 …

      Sam Harris added,

      Brett Hall @ToKTeacher
      Replying to @ToKTeacher
      The main errors of @SamHarrisOrg on AGI by the way are that "it's close" and "lots of progress has been made" and "it's a terrible danger".
      22 replies 10 retweets 32 likes
    2. Brett Hall‏ @ToKTeacher 24 May 2015
      Replying to @SamHarrisOrg

      .@SamHarrisOrg It does. AGI are just *people*! We should worry about AGI to precisely the same extent we worry about other people.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    3. Sam Harris‏Verified account @SamHarrisOrg 24 May 2015
      Replying to @ToKTeacher

      @ToKTeacher And that is to completely misconstrue the danger.

      3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Brett Hall‏ @ToKTeacher 24 May 2015
      Replying to @SamHarrisOrg

      .@SamHarrisOrg U should reach out to @DavidDeutschOxf for an interview 4 ur website/podcast about all this. Your readers would benefit.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Sam Harris‏Verified account @SamHarrisOrg 24 May 2015
      Replying to @ToKTeacher

      @ToKTeacher @DavidDeutschOxf I have huge respect for Deutsch, but that article hasn't aged very well.

      3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      Sam Harris‏Verified account @SamHarrisOrg 24 May 2015
      Replying to @KrishanBhattach

      @KrishanBhattach Elon Musk, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and many others.

      4:20 PM - 24 May 2015
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        2. Brett Hall‏ @ToKTeacher 24 May 2015
          Replying to @SamHarrisOrg

          @SamHarrisOrg @KrishanBhattach (Hawking is worried about alien life for the same reason, incidentally. It's the same mistake.)

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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        4. Brett Hall‏ @ToKTeacher 24 May 2015
          Replying to @KrishanBhattach

          @KrishanBhattach @SamHarrisOrg AGI dangers r same as "other people" dangers. Concerns about clock speeds, etc are just misunderstandings.

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. Imperfect Idea‏ @imperfectidea 25 May 2015
          Replying to @ToKTeacher

          .@ToKTeacher An AGI would be fundamentally *not human*. To think of it as "people" is nonsensical. @KrishanBhattach @SamHarrisOrg

          3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        6. Imperfect Idea‏ @imperfectidea 25 May 2015
          Replying to @imperfectidea

          .@ToKTeacher There's every reason to not expect any kind of human values, expectations or goals in an AGI. @KrishanBhattach @SamHarrisOrg

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        7. Brett Hall‏ @ToKTeacher 25 May 2015
          Replying to @imperfectidea

          @imperfectidea Human values progress towards objective reality. AGI would discover them. Just like they'd discover physics.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        8. Imperfect Idea‏ @imperfectidea 25 May 2015
          Replying to @ToKTeacher

          @ToKTeacher You're anthropomorphizing AI. This, from @waitbutwhy's: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html … http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html …pic.twitter.com/r9kuvGbSwp

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        9. Brett Hall‏ @ToKTeacher 25 May 2015
          Replying to @imperfectidea

          @imperfectidea @waitbutwhy You are assuming you know what AGI even is. You are being way too confident when the uncertainties are immense.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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        2. Austin Reynolds‏ @austinreynolds 24 May 2015
          Replying to @SamHarrisOrg

          @SamHarrisOrg @ToKTeacher People should have a look at Bostrom's book, Superintelligence, before saying they understand the potential danger

          4 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. Austin Reynolds‏ @austinreynolds 24 May 2015
          Replying to @SamHarrisOrg

          @SamHarrisOrg @ToKTeacher Normative parallel: we put our own interests ahead of the potential interests of children decide not to have.

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Atheist (2008)‏ @yanderiction 25 May 2015
          Replying to @austinreynolds

          @austinreynolds @SamHarrisOrg @ToKTeacher sure because AGI have human nature from millions of years of evolution. NOT.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Austin Reynolds‏ @austinreynolds 25 May 2015
          Replying to @yanderiction

          @yanderiction Agreed that AGIs are not "just people" (see my other tweets) but they may have moral status, once instantiated.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. Atheist (2008)‏ @yanderiction 25 May 2015
          Replying to @austinreynolds

          @austinreynolds if by moral status you mean their existence with ours is mutually beneficial then yes.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        6. Austin Reynolds‏ @austinreynolds 25 May 2015
          Replying to @yanderiction

          @yanderiction I meant we might be morally bound to consider the suffering of an AGI, if it can suffer. But before creation, we aren't.

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        7. Atheist (2008)‏ @yanderiction 25 May 2015
          Replying to @austinreynolds

          @austinreynolds well, considering all the processes that go into an animal and human's suffering, id say unlikely AGI can suffer.

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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        1. Jesse Ray Nichols‏ @JesseNichols 24 May 2015
          Replying to @SamHarrisOrg

          @SamHarrisOrg @DavidDeutschOxf Podcast yesterday on AGI, creativity, and free will.

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        1. Brett Hall‏ @ToKTeacher 24 May 2015
          Replying to @SamHarrisOrg

          @SamHarrisOrg @KrishanBhattach Yes. They are all labouring under the same set of philosophical and moral misconceptions.

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        1. Yenrap Rellin‏ @sisboombahbah 24 May 2015
          Replying to @SamHarrisOrg

          @SamHarrisOrg @KrishanBhattach Didn't Hawking voice concern recently also?

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