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Eric S. Raymond – This is the case against AI Doom – pass it on

13 pointsby 1h agotwitter.com
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29m agoHN ↗

Regardless of my opinion on the greater subject, I find these arguments to be fairly weak.

Paraphrasing: "Just because and AI may exist that is capable of acting independenly of us and dangerously out strategizing us for resources doesn't mean it will. AIs up until now only follow human instructions."

So your safe bet is that of this AI is created that not one of the billions of people on the world will ask it to do that? That seems unlikely.

"Yes and AI may have an IQ of 1500 but that doesn't mean it's qualitative better than us like we are compared to monkeys. We have better tool use and society."

Yes that's true, but generally increasing IQ also seems to come with qualatative advantages, I don't see why that pattern would stop above human IQs.