switham

(There's also the old convention of initial-quotes-only on all but the final paragraph of a long quotation. It's annoying, but it does have the effect on me of "What, no close-quote? Oh yeah, long quote...")

I think this piece of yours serves as a meta-example, an (opinionated) apology/apologetic-by-example about how to think, rethink, talk, retalk, and politics of talk(ing) about AI, safety, regulation in a broad sense, and honesty. That's much better than a lot of context-free (or at least context-omitted) talk about AI (especially as the context has been and probably will keep being both broad and fast-changing). And I guess there's a bigger audience than me who are (maybe unknowingly) thirsting for and would appreciate those qualities in talk in this are... (read more)

Want to relate Wolfram's big complexity question to three frameworky approaches already in use.

Humans have ideas of rights and property that simplify the question "How do we want people to act?" to "okay well What are we pretty sure we want people not to do?" and simplify that another step to "okay, let's Divide the world into non-intersecting Spheres of control, one per person, say you can do what you want within your sphere, and only do things outside your sphere by mutual agreement with the person in charge of the other sphere.  (And one thing that... (read more)