#intelligenceexplosion

[jrwillis]

#werescrewed #toobadfortheants #fearcompetence #intelligenceexplosion #thatswhatyoutoldmetodo #weirdart #lowbrowart #retroart #indefinite #questionoftime #notifwhen https://www.instagram.com/p/CEtZY_1B6yv/?igshid=1d7gvagqre5o6

[ecstadelicnet]

Any AGI at or above human-level intelligence can be considered as such, only if she has a wide variety of emotions, ability to achieve complex goals and motivation as an integral part of her programming and personal evolution. This essay discusses the three most optimal ways to create friendly AI (benevolent AGI), in order to safely navigate the uncharted waters and, for those in AI research, ride the “crest of the wave” of the forthcoming intelligence explosion... https://www.alexvikoulov.com/2020/03/agi-how-to-ensure-benevolence-in-synthetic-superintelligence.html #AGI #FriendlyAI #BenevolentAGI #IntelligenceExplosion #SyntellectEmergence #CyberneticSingularity https://www.instagram.com/p/B9YC8GwA5ES/?igshid=1ffrw7rnxkqg2

[parispsalter]

#thesis #transhumanism #intelligenceexplosion

[scientiststhesis-at-pillowfort]

I don't usually post or like videos on tumblr, but this 50-minute bad boy here is worth a go, truly. She explains very thoroughly the reasons why Spock (and Spock-like thinking) is completely irrational.

[scientiststhesis-at-pillowfort]

A very interesting website by Luke Muehlhauser (executive director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute) about rationality and the intelligence explosion (a.k.a. Singularity).

[scientiststhesis-at-pillowfort]

What is rationality?

This post is outdated. Newest version here.

I am sometimes under the impression that a lot of people think rationality is Spock. You can read the link on an explanation of why that is not so.

No, usually, when rational folk talk about rationality, we talk about two things:

Something is epistemically rational if it helps form or stems from true beliefs.

Something is instrumentally rational if it helps achieve or is a consequence of achieving your goals.

So, basically, you're being rational when you find out true things, act on true things (and that includes changing your mind when you find out you're wrong) and optimally achieve your goals.

It's not that scary, is it? No, of course not. And it sheds some light on why Spock isn't rational at all: if he loses to Captain Kirk on 3D chess when Kirk is "intuitive" and "irrational," clearly the irrational one is captain Spock himself. But go read the link above to see a more thorough deconstruction of the trope.

Knowing that, why wouldn't you want to be rational? It's paradoxical: you would have to want to believe false things (and if you know they're false, then you obviously don't believe them) and want to foil your own achievements (and if you want to not achieve your goals, then your goal of failing at everything is effectively achieved).

When we play technical rationality games, when I discuss all these dozens of subjects about rationality, what I'm really doing is explaining techniques of finding truth and achieving goals.

Rationality is to win, systematically and frequently. It's, simply, the art of winning.