224. Superintelligence Assumptions
Channel: THUNK
Date: 2022-05-15

Many of those who are 100% convinced by Nick Bostrom’s arguments about the potential for a runaway superintelligence tend to share certain beliefs about the world - is it possible that his case hits *much* differently depending on one’s starting assumptions?

- Links for the Curious - 

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, & Strategies (Bostrom, 2014) - https://dorshon.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/superintelligence-paths-dangers-strategies-by-nick-bostrom.pdf

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (Maciej Cegłowski, 2016) - https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery (Urbina et al, 2022) - https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00465-9

A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence (Legg & Hutter, 2006) - http://www.vetta.org/documents/A-Collection-of-Definitions-of-Intelligence.pdf 

How to Think Rationally about World Problems (Stanovich, 2018) - http://keithstanovich.com/Site/Research_on_Reasoning_files/Stanovich_JOI_2018.pdf 

MIRI 990 Tax Documentation, 2020 - https://intelligence.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/990-2020.pdf

Should We Fear Artificial Intelligence? (Startalk, 2015) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IFQsfTEm8s

On NYT Magazine on AI: Resist the Urge to be Impressed (Bender, 2022) - https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/on-nyt-magazine-on-ai-resist-the-urge-to-be-impressed-3d92fd9a0edd

IBM's AI Ethics, focusing on social & practical problems with AI systems - https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/ai-ethics

Artifice and Intelligence (Tucker, 2022) - https://techpolicy.press/artifice-and-intelligence/