also, sometimes when you don't know what a thing will be like there are a few possibilities and you can study each of them
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1) re "intelligent thing risk" my new fave take is https://twitter.com/fire__exit/status/1011762984136445953 … 2) humans took millennia to appear and were shaped by long-term environments. we're motivated to make virtual humans but it's gonna be messy & I think Moore's Law is over 3) "study"?
"sound alarm"? 
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I think a major point I deeply disagree with is that I don't think Moore's Law will hold. A lot of AI-related fear seems to assume a continuous creep in computing power. How would AI-risk research change if we were forever stuck with the computing power of our current hardware?
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My current theorizing is that: - the brain is the most efficient physical form for human-like intelligence - the most likely "general AI" is a large brain/"biological machine" - there are deep unknown-unknowns re how this might come to exist and what forms of agency it will have
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Replying to @simpolism @teleonomist
"most efficient physical form" seems really unlikely to me given how many constraints evolution has been under
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it's like how trains don't have legs
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by the metric of "speed" a train is more efficient than legs, but if your metric is "turn speed" then legs are more efficient. if your metric is "steps per second" then a train's efficiency is "mu"
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Replying to @simpolism @teleonomist
the goal isn't to imitate humans but to act/think effectively. more like speed than turn speed or steps per second
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what does it mean for an action or a thought to be "effective"?
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it accomplishes goals in the world, e.g. high production or military control
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solving problems like this doesn't require being human, it just requires being smart
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