From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 15:52:40 MDT
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
>
>>Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> > It is unlikely any of us will see advent of such technology within our
>> > normal lifetime, however, short of semidivine interventions (SI, etc).
>>
>>Eugen, that's only moderately less silly than saying that it's unlikely
>>that any of us will see daylight within our normal lifetimes, barring a
>>sunrise.
>
> Ok, for those of us who are a bit slower, could you explain
> the reasoning behind this comment?
Because most of us, and Eugen and I in particular, *do* expect SI to show
up, at a fairly high probability. Or maybe I've somehow mistaken Eugen's
views on this. The point is that saying "X is unlikely... well, unless
highly probable event Y" is a strange statement.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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