I’ve bought it and plan to read it, you are the second person to recommend it to me recently.
Curious about how you think it’s more realistic than AI 2027? AI 2027 doesn’t really feature any superpersuasion, much less intelligence-as-mind-control. It does have bioweapons but they aren’t at all important to the plot. As for boiling the oceans… I mean I think that’ll happen in the next decade or two unless the powers that be decide to regulate economic growth to prevent it, which they might or might not.
It’s been a while since I read AI 2027, but the bioweapons were part of it. I felt the depiction of how AI accelerated AI research more realistic in Red Heart. AI 2027 leaned on hacking more than Red Heart too. The AI in Red Heart felt more like a difficult enemy that could in theory be beaten by the main character, rather than a superhuman god doing research beyond the comprehension of mere humans. I’m not saying AI 2027 is lacking in a technical sense. Just that to a layperson, it would trigger more skepticism than Red Heart.
FWIW I do think that superintelligent AI, when it eventually exists, will be more analogous to a superhuman god doing research beyond the comprehension of mere humans, than to a difficult enemy that could in theory be beaten by the main character. Like, yes, in theory it could be beaten, in the same sense that in theory I could beat Magnus Carlsen in chess or in theory Cuba could invade and conquer the USA.
I’ve bought it and plan to read it, you are the second person to recommend it to me recently.
Curious about how you think it’s more realistic than AI 2027? AI 2027 doesn’t really feature any superpersuasion, much less intelligence-as-mind-control. It does have bioweapons but they aren’t at all important to the plot. As for boiling the oceans… I mean I think that’ll happen in the next decade or two unless the powers that be decide to regulate economic growth to prevent it, which they might or might not.
It’s been a while since I read AI 2027, but the bioweapons were part of it. I felt the depiction of how AI accelerated AI research more realistic in Red Heart. AI 2027 leaned on hacking more than Red Heart too. The AI in Red Heart felt more like a difficult enemy that could in theory be beaten by the main character, rather than a superhuman god doing research beyond the comprehension of mere humans. I’m not saying AI 2027 is lacking in a technical sense. Just that to a layperson, it would trigger more skepticism than Red Heart.
OK, thanks!
FWIW I do think that superintelligent AI, when it eventually exists, will be more analogous to a superhuman god doing research beyond the comprehension of mere humans, than to a difficult enemy that could in theory be beaten by the main character. Like, yes, in theory it could be beaten, in the same sense that in theory I could beat Magnus Carlsen in chess or in theory Cuba could invade and conquer the USA.
I probably agree.