Ep 137: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 4: Minds - Part the First
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Is There a Bostrom Super Intelligence?
Bostrom appears to be concerned that too much rationality is dangerous. He seems to fear a machine that might be in his eyes smarter than him. And if it began to pursue such a goal, we could just switch it off. Aha, Christ Bostrom, but you cannot. The machine has a decisive strategic advantage. This is a phrase that appears more times than I was able to keep count of on the audiobook. So the machine is able to think creatively about absolutely everything that people might decide to do to stop at killing them and turning the universe into paperclips. It can consider every single explanation possible except that one. Why? We are not told. On the one
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