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the central point of the AI risk is that superintelligent AI is an environmental risk. Allow me to explain. In his “Parable of the Sentient Puddle,” Douglas Adams describes a puddle that wakes up in the morning and finds himself in a hole that fits him “staggeringly well.” From that observation, the puddle conc
wolves are clept All by the name of dogs. William Shakespeare — Macbeth For most of our species’ history, our
catalogue ye go for men, As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept All by the name of dogs. William Shakespeare — Macbeth For most of our species’ history, our ancestors were barely people. This was not due to any inadequacy in their brains. On the contrary, e
the central point of the AI risk is that superintelligent AI is an environmental risk. Allow me to explain. In his “Parable of the Sentient Puddle,” Douglas Adams describes a puddle that wakes up in the morning and finds himself in a hole that fits him “staggeringly well.” From that observation, the puddle conc
wolves are clept All by the name of dogs. William Shakespeare — Macbeth For most of our species’ history, our
catalogue ye go for men, As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept All by the name of dogs. William Shakespeare — Macbeth For most of our species’ history, our ancestors were barely people. This was not due to any inadequacy in their brains. On the contrary, e
iter HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015817 “Theres an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.” Douglas Adams “I'm not young enough to know everything.” J.M. Barrie “He has Van Gogh’ ear for music.” Billy Wilder HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015818 ouldan army of monkey
an be created without understanding. Can a monkey, or perhaps some form of computerized random number generator, accidentally type out the script for Shakespeare's Hamlet or write Tolstoy’s War and Peace? Is knowledge generation simply a numbers game? Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace is generally assumed to be the
verything. How would we know? If only I had waited a little longer before rebooting, the program would have run to its end and given me the answer to Douglas Adams’ question. It would be very useful, and save a great deal of time, if I had a way of telling whether a program will ever stop. An elegant solution w
‘monkeys and typewriters’ idea where we use random chance to generate information. Many people have suggested it is possible to write a play such as Shakespeare's Hamlet by simply typing random characters until we happened upon the play. The argument is flawed. The first flaw is the process would take a supe
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