I have great regard for the welfare of humanity. But there is no right to having an opinion on the subject. Not without doing all the work and studying all the issues required to have an opinion, on this terrible issue where a single flawed step in reasoning could be fatal.
I don’t think you have any idea how poor humanity’s position on the gameboard looks right now, if you think that there’s any space at all for anything but the most perfect possible moves as fast as they can be made.
I have no intent, at present, to wield superhuman power with my own human morality, or “program an AI” to do anything whatsoever that isn’t an extremely abstract matter of metamorals. Anyone trying to give me specific orders on the subject is revealing their own lack of moral caution—they’re trying to give me the kind of orders that I would never dare give myself, and so I would have no choice at all but to ignore them.
I don’t see very many options for humanity’s survival that don’t involve nine people, a quiet project and a brain in a box in a basement. Zero, if we restrict ourselves to alternatives that I think might actually work in real life.
I have great regard for the welfare of humanity. But there is no right to having an opinion on the subject. Not without doing all the work and studying all the issues required to have an opinion, on this terrible issue where a single flawed step in reasoning could be fatal.
I don’t think you have any idea how poor humanity’s position on the gameboard looks right now, if you think that there’s any space at all for anything but the most perfect possible moves as fast as they can be made.
I have no intent, at present, to wield superhuman power with my own human morality, or “program an AI” to do anything whatsoever that isn’t an extremely abstract matter of metamorals. Anyone trying to give me specific orders on the subject is revealing their own lack of moral caution—they’re trying to give me the kind of orders that I would never dare give myself, and so I would have no choice at all but to ignore them.
I don’t see very many options for humanity’s survival that don’t involve nine people, a quiet project and a brain in a box in a basement. Zero, if we restrict ourselves to alternatives that I think might actually work in real life.