I am a machine learning engineer, and I am very sympathetic to the concern of existential risk. Yudkowski asserts repeatedly that his arguments proceed from mathematical fact to lead to what is very close to certainty, analogously to how you can be close to certain that a lottery ticket will lose. The thing is, some..
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I think this is the first book review I have ever written. This was the fourth book I’ve read about AI. As I read it, I was impressed by the simplicity of its prose and its sound logic. I was also, however, terrified by what I read and struggled to maintain my normally positive outlook..
This is a well written intelligent book and there’s a lot in it I agree with, but two things I don’t. I think it’s true that, as they say, even a 20 year old chess program could, at least in the operational sense, be said to have wishes; in this case it would just be..
Extraordinary feast
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This book scared me, but I should be scared. We all should be.
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The author did an excellent job of laying out how AI is “grown”, in a way that the layperson can make sense of it. The book does an even better job of illustrating how a truly ‘alien’ intellect would differ from us, and how this is what we would be facing with ASI. We only..


