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Really Powerful Optimization Process

Edited by Zack_M_Davis, Grognor, greenrd, et al. last updated 29th Dec 2016

The term artificial intelligence can have anthropomorphic connotations. In some contexts, it might be useful to speak of a really powerful optimization process rather than a superintelligence. An AI that was nonanthropomorphic and nonsentient could theoretically still be a very powerful device that could drastically affect the future in precise ways.

Blog posts

  • Dreams of Friendliness
  • Aiming at the Target
  • Efficient Cross-Domain Optimization
  • Nonsentient Optimizers
  • The Design Space of Minds-in-General

External links

  • Creature or Technology by Steven Kaas
  • The Stamp Collecting Device by Nick Hay

See also

  • Optimization process, configuration space
  • Artificial general intelligence, singleton
  • Friendly Artificial Intelligence
  • Anthropomorphism, alien values
  • Evolution as alien god
  • Complexity of value
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