I almost tweeted this last night, but @sama putting AI on a list of failed predictions seems not-even-wrong to me. http://blog.samaltman.com/technology-predictions …
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@vgr Read part of Greer's "Apocalypse Not" the other day: good catalog of that type of error, w/ continuity medieval to 2012. -
@polyparadigm That's Matt Ridley, Greer is on the other side of such things I believe.He is skeptical of apocalyptic stuff for other reasons - 2 more replies
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@vgr for now anyway. Plus as@bratton in his recent NYT piece. We don't even know what real AI looks like http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/opinionator/2015/02/23/outing-a-i-beyond-the-turing-test/ … -
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@vgr It might be better to put it in tech apocalypse concerns. Many haven't come true, but then again nuclear fears weren't 'wrong' -
@BenGoldhaber The big danger here is that ill-conceived regulation will stymie the equivalent of nuclear energy for power generation uses. - 2 more replies
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@vgr Which list is less important than what it would mean if it succeeded. There would be no more lists.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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