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Dammit it just struck me that this might be a genius insight, in which case I’m screwed. I hope it’s only a mediocre insight. I need to get good at mediocrity. No wait, I need to get more mediocre at mediocrity.
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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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Sounds off. You defined genius as a computer - a narrow field expert, rather than a genius being someone who can look at problems from many directions and across many fields (see Feynman). So it's experts and idiots who are at risk, while mediocre and genius are on another axis.
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I don’t see why those two fine groups of AI/robots would want to keep you mediocre humans around. Existential angst, while cute, doesn’t require more than a few zoo inhabitants.