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Anders Sandberg | Post-Scarcity Civilizations & Cognitive Enhancement

The Foresight Institute Podcast

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Is VBE Better Than EGI?

Konair: I think that is the G in the general intelligence that we're truly interested in. And also, so what's scared of? Konair: If it was just a lot of powerful narrow AI, we could probably figure out ways of controlling that fairly well. Malicious uses, well, it's a tricky problem, but again, it's fairly manageable. Getting something that is absolutely unpredictable because we're not smart enough, oh, that's much more problematic. But from a kind of strategy standpoint, probably EGI will give you a big bang for buck right now. It might be that we carried Boom Peter South, we have another with us. We can discuss exactly

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