When Ted Chiang opens an essay on AI by comparing the intelligence explosion argument to the ontological argument for God, you sit up and pay attention.
newyorker.com/culture/annals
(Seriously, the shots fired in that opening are deafening lol).
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Tx for sharing. I thought the article was meh. His case is based on 2 strawmen.
1. Using IQ model to explain superintelligence logic, and showing flaws. But AGI researchers don't use IQ as a model anyway.
2. Using compiler bootstrapping as a model and showing limits. Not the same
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Maybe I'm biased. I love hard sci-fi, and Ted Chiang writes more "literary sci-fi" - beautiful prose, but very narrow consideration of implications.
overcomingbias.com/2019/05/chiang
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