Singularity Reading Recommendations Wednesday, Jul 11 2007
AI and singularity 5:33 am
For those interested in more seriously exploring the issues of Artificial General Intelligence and the Singularity, I’d like to recommend the following writings, in the following order:
Creating Friendly AI
Levels of Organization in General Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk
Coherent Extrapolated Volition
Knowability of Friendly AI
If you make it through these five documents, please do email me and tell me what you think. One of the biggest barriers to sophisticated Singularity discourse is simply that most people do not take the time to look at the existing literature in detail.
Great post!
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Does it count that I just read the whole thread which sprang from Mitchell Howe’s What Are The Odds?
Just joking, of course! But that discussion *is* massive (~20 000 words).
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This isn’t a Singularity reading list, it’s an Eliezer Yudkowsky reading list. A little bit more diversity in authorship would be good. Eli’s not the only person who has thought long and hard about these topics, nor is his viewpoint necessarily canonical (or even non-controversial!)
Feel free to add your own links. I just picked those I thought were most useful as pertains to the activist view of the Singularity, i.e., something we should accomplish, as opposed to the passive view, which just says that everything is going to happen pretty much automatically. I think people should be introduced to the first view.
Hehe, no. :) A better use of your time would have been to read the above, I’m afraid. Most of those people came from Digg, probably haven’t read much about the issue, and will never be back. If you read Digg regularly you recognize that the quality of comments and conversations on there is pretty low.
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