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“Reframing Superintelligence” is a must-read – Longitudinal Science

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Eric Drexler of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute has published a new book called Reframing Superintelligence: Comprehensive AI Services as General Intelligence. The book’s basic th…

Eric Drexler of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute has published a new book called Reframing Superintelligence: Comprehensive AI Services as General Intelligence. The book’s basic thesis is that the discussion around super-intelligence to date has suffered from implicit and poorly justified background assumptions — particularly the idea that advanced AGI systems would necessarily take the form of “rational utility-directed agents”. Drexler argues a number of key points, including: –One can, in principle, achieve super-intelligent and highly general and programmable sets of services…

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