tjaffee

Imagine a hypothetical conversation between an intelligent, rational, epistemically confident AI doomer (say Eliezer Yudkowsky) and a superintelligent AI. The goal of the superintelligence is to genuinely convince the doomer that doom is unlikely or impossible, using only persuasion - no rearranging mind states using nanobots or similar tricks, and...

My note: This essay was written for people worried about nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Although I do not agree with the supernaturalism towards the end, I find the first three paragraphs in particular to be incredibly prescient and helpful for many people worried about AI today. In one...