From: Tim Freeman (tim@fungible.com)
Date: Mon Aug 06 2007 - 12:28:24 MDT
From: "Byrne Hobart" <sometimesfunnyalwaysright@gmail.com>
>No. Once AIs take off, IQ will be a measure of how closely you can relate to
>the most powerful entities in your society. It's going to be something akin
>to living in the Third World and speaking fluent English.
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> And if a powerful AI is
> created, that radical change will make minor genetic differences
> between humans seem unimportant.
No. Once AIs take off, IQ will be a measure of how closely you can relate to
the most powerful entities in your society. It's going to be something akin
to living in the Third World and speaking fluent English.
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<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">And if a powerful AI is<br>created, that radical change will make minor genetic differences
<br>between humans seem unimportant.</blockquote><div><br>No. Once AIs take off, IQ will be a measure of how closely you can relate to the most powerful entities in your society. It's going to be something akin to living in the Third World and speaking fluent English.
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Define the "dropoff" to be the rate at which reduced IQ leads to
reduced fitness in the environment we're talking about.
Do you have any insight into how to influence the sharpness of the
dropoff? If the one or two or ten people who can best interact with
the AI get everything, and everyone else gets nothing, then the vast
majority of everybody loses, and specifically I will very likely lose.
If we have a choice, I hope we'll get to a situation where the dropoff
is gentle or nonexistent, and intelligence matters very little.
Otherwise I can't be sure I'll be on the correct side of the dividing
line.
-- Tim Freeman http://www.fungible.com tim@fungible.com
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