The main flaw in superintelligence arguments is to think of intelligence as an intrinsic property of an agent, like the height of a tower.
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Another, much more acceptable flaw, is to think of intelligence as a scalar quantity.
The root of these issues is the lack of a proper definition for intelligence.
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It is difficult to argue that super-X is coming, and is dangerous, if you do not know what X is.
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Absence of exact definition is no identical to absence of knowledge
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Given the non-design of evolution and brains, the shortest definition may be a very long list of problem solving areas.
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These conceptual flaws (intelligence as a scalar property, like the level of a game character) are best exemplified by this Softbank slidepic.twitter.com/uLRMHV5kyp
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usefulness is agent/time specific; meaningfulness is objective if calculating amt of info that can be further integrated. IQ uses latter
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