Nick that’s an interesting thought, but it is possible that someone does know how to build a friendly AI, but may not know that he knows this. What I mean is that a person may be working on something unrelated to AI or is not interested in AI, but knows all the ingredients and technical things needed to make a friendly AI. Maybe he just doesn’t know the implications of his own knowledge.
I think it’s fair to say many scientists fall into this category, if only due to specialization. Maybe some inorganic chemist knows the cure to cancer. But simply due to his ignorance/uninterest in biochemistry or organic chemistry or whatever subject that’s relevant is unaware of the implications of his own specialized knowledge on topics outside his area of expertise.
An interesting thought and to further that it is quite probable that the cure to cancer is locked up in a child’s brain in Africa struggling to survive. Similarly, it is also quite probable that the many humans beings inhabiting our planet that do not receive education and thus remain blissfully ignorant could’ve solved the many problems of science, medicine etc that all the learned minds in the world are struggling with.
To me this thought invited very mind boggling epiphanies about life and about our existence and most importantly about the nature of our world.
Nick that’s an interesting thought, but it is possible that someone does know how to build a friendly AI, but may not know that he knows this. What I mean is that a person may be working on something unrelated to AI or is not interested in AI, but knows all the ingredients and technical things needed to make a friendly AI. Maybe he just doesn’t know the implications of his own knowledge.
I think it’s fair to say many scientists fall into this category, if only due to specialization. Maybe some inorganic chemist knows the cure to cancer. But simply due to his ignorance/uninterest in biochemistry or organic chemistry or whatever subject that’s relevant is unaware of the implications of his own specialized knowledge on topics outside his area of expertise.
An interesting thought and to further that it is quite probable that the cure to cancer is locked up in a child’s brain in Africa struggling to survive. Similarly, it is also quite probable that the many humans beings inhabiting our planet that do not receive education and thus remain blissfully ignorant could’ve solved the many problems of science, medicine etc that all the learned minds in the world are struggling with. To me this thought invited very mind boggling epiphanies about life and about our existence and most importantly about the nature of our world.