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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Replying to @vgr
When people said things like "heaver than air flight is impossible" that was negation of a well-posed, falsifiable proposition.
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Replying to @vgr
So treating anti-Scary-AI positions as equivalent to denying heavier-than-air flight is a category error. You can't negate an ill-posed idea
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Replying to @vgr
The right list on which to put "Scary AI" is a list of failed apocalyptic doomsday cult predictions, not failed tech predictions.
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Replying to @BenGoldhaber
@BenGoldhaber The big danger here is that ill-conceived regulation will stymie the equivalent of nuclear energy for power generation uses.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@BenGoldhaber My point is, the diff between pragmatic risk concerns and religious apocalyptic fears is precisely the specificity of threat
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