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Late night theory: AIs and robots will replace all the geniuses and all the dumbest functional humans, leaving only the mediocre human minds as the new fittest that survive. AlphaGoZero replaces the geniuses Very small shell scripts replace idiots We mediocre types win
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Not even kidding. What is common to genius and low-skill domains is that they tend to be bounded. Genius domains just have more richness for intuition to work on Mediocre intelligences tend to deal with the open, tedious messy domains where neither genius, nor stupidity work
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The straight-up arms race scenario of trying to be “smarter” than machines always seemed strategically wrong. John Henry wrong. This “dealing with open systems” is a kind of intelligence but an oblique kind. One that projects to mediocrity on regular intelligence vector.
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The extrovert play would be to create intricate social rules that robots would have a hard time fulfilling: "You were on the rowing team in your youth, were you not, Threepio?"
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