Re: Nightline comments on AI

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 08:52:56 MDT


On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:53:34PM -0400, Brian Atkins wrote:
>
> Also on one hand you seem to be claiming we can deal confidently with
> most existential risks such as nanotech and biowarfare, yet this one
> called "SI" you have no confidence for apparently. Yet even if it appears
> later in the historical timeline (debatable), we will eventually have to
> face it.

I have no confidence in that SI is a simple and necessary step.

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