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GIANT CLAIMS. “If there is a singularity, it will be one of the most important events in the history of the planet. An intelligence explosion has enormous potential benefits: a cure for all known diseases, an end to poverty, extraordinary scientific advances, and much more. It also has enor- mous potential dangers: an end to the human race, an arms race of warring machines, the power to destroy the planet.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

Q.E.D. “If there is AI++, it will have an enormous impact on the world.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

TWISTED HUMOR. “As Vernor Vinge put it: The best answer to the question, “Will computers ever be as smart as humans?” is probably “Yes, but only briefly.” http://intelligenceexplosion.com/en/2011/plenty-of-room-above-us/ View in LinkedIn

MORE THREAD. “(i) If there exists AI+, then there exists an AI1; (ii) For all n > 0, if an AIn exists, then absent defeaters, there will be an AIn+1; (iii) If for all n there exists an AIn, there will be AI++; (iv) If there is AI+, then absent defeaters, there will be AI++.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

LOGIC THREAD. “(i) If there is AI, AI will be produced by an extendible method; (ii) If AI is produced by an extendible method, we will have the capacity to extend the method (soon after); iii) Extending the method that produces an AI will yield an AI+; (iv) Absent defeaters, if there is AI, there will (soon after) be AI+.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION. “Evolution operates without requiring any antecedent intelligence or forethought. If evolution can produce something in this unintelligent manner, then in principle humans should be able to produce it much faster, by using our intelligence. Evolution produced human-level intelligence mechanically and nonmiraculously.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

THE LOGIC. “(i) Evolution produced human-level intelligence; (ii) If evolution produced human-level intelligence, then we can produce AI (before long); (iii) Absent defeaters, there will be AI (before long).” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

THE HOPE. “If a system in our world duplicates not only our outputs but our internal computational structure, then it will duplicate the important internal aspects of mentality too.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

MACHINE VIEW. “Every organ of the body appears to be a machine: that is, a complex system comprised of law-governed parts interacting in a law-governed way. The brain is no exception.’ https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

IMITATION QUEST. “Hubert Dreyfus (1972) and Roger Penrose (1994) have argued that human cognitive activity can never be emulated by any computational machine. John Searle (1980) and Ned Block (1981) have argued that even if we can emulate the human brain, it does not follow that the emulation itself has a mind or is intelligent. I have argued elsewhere that all of these objections fail.’ https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn