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RE: Float Your Intelligence Boat

tarazkp in Reflections • 10 days ago

A less polite way of saying it is that higher intelligence yields higher level fuck-ups that are just more difficult to explain.

As I think I explained, this is how most people anchor intelligence, to what they think is intelligent now. I am not talking about 150 IQs - I am talking about 600+ IQs or something like that - whatever level it needs to be to really understand the interconnectedness. It is far higher than any human has ever seen before.

I think that the general fear that super AI could take over the world is telling of our innate human sense that higher intelligence is dangerous.

I don't think higher intelligence is the problem with AI. I think you are conflating issues.

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shainemata 10 days ago

I'm referring to the visceral distrust of AI. I don't personally think it has merit. That animal part of us has a distrust of cleverness.

I think what you are hoping is that higher intelligence would come with higher conscientiousness. I think these are separate things. Conscientiousness can be inculturated so that intelligence is not necessary. I think your daughter is the perfect example. She is conscientious about cleaning up after yourself and not calling people idiots. I'm sure she's a bright young mind, but she didn't need 600 IQ to understand that certain things aren't right.

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tarazkp 9 days ago

I think you have misunderstood the problem. It isn't about conscientiousness alone, because problems still have to be solved in a complex and complicated system. No matter how conscientious my daughter is, she isn't going to create clean energy with it, is she? At a high enough intelligence, clean energy could be created, and used wisely.

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