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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 1 Apr 2015

    Why I (and others) are not worried. http://is.gd/lROO1B  via @edge

    7:30 AM - 1 Apr 2015
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      1. Caspar Bowden‏ @CasparBowden 1 Apr 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        continuing 20yr uncanny knack of missing point @RealJaronLanier doesn't get #Bostrom control prob http://edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-the-myth-of-ai … @sapinker #SuperAI

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      1. Connor Flexman‏ @ConnorFlexman 1 Apr 2015
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        @sapinker @edge Did you read Stuart Russell's response? Literally every other response was just strawmanning, not responding to Bostrom

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      2. Andrew Stevens‏ @evidence_reason 2 Apr 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Huge fan - but have you read Bostrom’s book? (He’s apparently read TBAOON – references it several times...)

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      3. Andrew Stevens‏ @evidence_reason 2 Apr 2015
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        @sapinker That @edge piece seems to conflate undoubtable AI hype by some w/ what Bostrom & notable ‘technologists’etc r really talking about

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      4. Andrew Stevens‏ @evidence_reason 2 Apr 2015
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        @sapinker @edge All seem to acknowledge past & current hype + that no one knows when (or even if) true A-General-I (AGI) will eventuate

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      5. Andrew Stevens‏ @evidence_reason 2 Apr 2015
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        @sapinker @edge Claims: 1) Eventual development of AGI is definitely not improbable (& actually ‘quite likely’– just not in ‘near future’)

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      6. Andrew Stevens‏ @evidence_reason 2 Apr 2015
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        @sapinker @edge 2) The nature of the development would mean that there is a high chance of an ‘intelligence explosion’

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      7. Andrew Stevens‏ @evidence_reason 2 Apr 2015
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        @sapinker @edge 3) That the resulting ‘superintelligence’ would be vastly superior (in ways and we can’t imagine)

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      8. Andrew Stevens‏ @evidence_reason 2 Apr 2015
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        @sapinker @edge 4) AGSuperI (AGSI)’s ‘motivation’/final goals would be dictated by programmed & convergent instrumental values/goals

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      9. Andrew Stevens‏ @evidence_reason 2 Apr 2015
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        @sapinker @edge 5) Final goals and level of intelligence are largely orthogonal

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      1. Josh Kuhn‏ @deontologician 1 Apr 2015
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        @sapinker worry in proportion to how much threat there is. We shouldn't hide under the bed today, but this will become a problem in a decade

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      1. Farzam‏ @farzamt 1 Apr 2015
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        @sapinker @edge We should be worried unless we have a clear answer to what benign utility function for a super intelligence would look like.

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      1. David's Disembodied Head‏ @david_kenneth_d 1 Apr 2015
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        @sapinker @edge It doesn't seem like he denies autonomous algorithms could be dangerous though, just that they're still far off?

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