Thanks to a very instructive exchange with @ESYudkowsky (see a retweet of it), I have gone from having my overall impression of the AI risk crowd being of a group of interesting but mislead oddballs to a dangerous group of monomaniacs who are as much of a threat as a benefit.
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Replying to @glenweyl @ESYudkowsky
Have you read Neil Postman's "Technopoly"? It's perhaps the most striking argument against technocracy I've seen. https://www.amazon.com/Technopoly-Surrender-Technology-Neil-Postman/dp/0679745408/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=technopoly&qid=1566400785&s=gateway&sr=8-1 …
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Incidentally, as far as I can see the mainstream approach to AI risk is much better represented by this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06565 (Cited 400 times in 3 years, which I believe makes it the most highly cited recent AI risk paper).
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @glenweyl
(Not my area. But several friends work on this stuff, so I loosely follow along.)
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