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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker May 11

    A new techno-panic from the guys who think you should worry about AI turning you into paperclips: A future AI who will eternally torture you if you don't bring it into existence (or something like that). http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/07/roko_s_basilisk_the_most_terrifying_thought_experiment_of_all_time.html?wpsrc=sh_all_tab_tw_top … via @slate

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      1. Reflected Sky‏ @reflected_sky May 11
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        I'm not a doomsday AI guy at all, but I did find your book too dismissive of their claims. Bostrom's Superintelligence is worth reading

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      2. The Jolly Swagmen Podcast‏ @jollyswagmenpod May 11
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        Why are you so dismissive of AI risks? Can you please list serious AI literature that you’ve read/engaged with (eg journal articles, books like Bostrom’s Superintelligence). I want to be proved wrong on thinking you’re being glib

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      3. Joe‏ @jprwg May 11
        Replying to @jollyswagmenpod @sapinker @Slate

        The literature I've seen tends to just assume a model where intelligence has been the key bottleneck for most human progress, and where minds are a generic 'intelligence algorithm' attached to arbitrary goals, neither of which seem at all obvious. (Do you disagree?)

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      4. The Jolly Swagmen Podcast‏ @jollyswagmenpod May 11
        Replying to @jprwg @sapinker @Slate

        If even start with these 3 you can't help but take the risks more seriously than does @sapinker : Stuart Russell: https://futureoflife.org/data/documents/research_priorities.pdf … Bostrom: https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/artificial-intelligence.pdf … @ESYudkowsky Yudkowsky: https://intelligence.org/files/AIPosNegFactor.pdf …

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      5. Joe‏ @jprwg May 11
        Replying to @jollyswagmenpod @sapinker and

        I'm very familiar with the arguments on this. I maintain the assumptions I mention are very insufficiently defended, & are largely just taken as given. I agree the issue is potentially real but would like to see far more investigation into validity of these key supporting claims.

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      6. The Jolly Swagmen Podcast‏ @jollyswagmenpod May 11
        Replying to @jprwg @sapinker and

        This is the whole point: the field of AI research is full of uncertainty. It could go really well for humanity, or equally it could go terribly. Given the downside risks it’s important to a) take AI risks seriously and b) do more research to remove the uncertainty

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      7. The Jolly Swagmen Podcast‏ @jollyswagmenpod May 11
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      8. The Jolly Swagmen Podcast‏ @jollyswagmenpod May 11
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        If there’s even a 0.1% chance of an existential risk then it is worth taking seriously. Yes? The expected value covers not just us but all future generations who may never see the light of day (read Derek Parfit’s On What Matters for why future generations are morally relevant)

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      1. Twisted Mentat Matt‏ @moridinamael May 11
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        This is from 2014

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      2. Singularitybooks‏ @Singularitybook May 11
        Replying to @sapinker @IEET @Slate

        If you don’t understand AI concerns it’s irresponsible to dismiss them.

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      3. IEET‏ @IEET May 11
        Replying to @Singularitybook @sapinker @Slate

        Rococo's Bakelite is to AI risk mitigation as astrology is to astronomy.

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      4. Singularitybooks‏ @Singularitybook May 11
        Replying to @IEET @sapinker @Slate

        "from the guys who think you should worry about AI turning you into paperclips" dismissing Bostrom like that totally disqualifies one as having put any thought into this issue.

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      2. Lee Ward‏ @mrleeward May 11
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        That article's four years old, dude.

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      3. Vaelin Van Gogh‏ @VaelinVanGogh May 11
        Replying to @mrleeward @sapinker @Slate

        They mentioned it on HBO’s Silicon Valley recently so now everyone is dredging this up.

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      1. Resty T‏ @RestyTon86 May 11
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        Reminds me of Pascal's Wager.

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      1. Tamzin S. Pumpkins ⚧‏ @tamzinblake May 11
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        It not new - that article is from 2014 and the actual thought experiment is from ~2010.

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      1. The Tinfoil Tricorn‏ @TinfoilTricorn May 16
        Replying to @sapinker @AdamThierer @Slate

        I've been fighting for good AI to have the right to be developed free from regulation because it's clear major corporations are developing evil AI while at the same time trying to pass regulations to prevent competitors developing a good AI to discover what the bad AI did.

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      1. Wagner's music‏ @Wagnersmusic1 May 13
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        This is something to take seriously: if DNC builds AI, it will destroy us, as promised. – at Mt. Calvary Cemetary

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      1. Nate Herrell‏ @NateHerrell May 12
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        New?

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