{"id":603,"date":"2015-11-04T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/?p=603"},"modified":"2015-11-04T13:14:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:14:46","slug":"why-superintelligence-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/04\/why-superintelligence-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Superintelligence Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Start with this article on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/waitbutwhy.com\/\">Wait But Why<\/a>. Its fascinating and shouldn&#8217;t be missed even if you have almost no interest in computers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/waitbutwhy.com\/2015\/01\/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html\">The article<\/a> is largely based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickbostrom.com\/\">Nick Bostrom&#8217;s<\/a> work. If you like it, you should check out his book book\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1LvKByP\">Superintelligence<\/a><\/em>. It also\u00a0discusses many of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/\">Ray Kurzweil&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1N1p6Z8\">ideas<\/a>.\u00a0Some of which are a bit\u00a0far fetched, but hey, this is AI we&#8217;re talking about, it&#8217;s all far fetched.<\/p>\n<h3>More AI Stuff<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Edge.org&#8217;s question of the year was <a href=\"http:\/\/edge.org\/responses\/what-do-you-think-about-machines-that-think\">What do You Think About Machines that Think<\/a>. They have complied 192\u00a0<em>very<\/em>\u00a0short essays on the subject. The essays are also available in <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1LvLM1h\">book format<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simulation-argument.com\/simulation.html\">Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?<\/a>\u00a0is a\u00a0short essay\u00a0by Nick Bostrom. Also see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.simulation-argument.com\/\">the site it spawned<\/a>. Warning: this is not to be read in moments of existential angst.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pywF6ZzsghI\">Bostrom speaking at Google<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And finally,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1WcGMGU\">Our Final Invention<\/a>, another AI book. This one\u00a0by James Barrat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start with this article on\u00a0Wait But Why. Its fascinating and shouldn&#8217;t be missed even if you have almost no interest in computers. The article is largely based on Nick Bostrom&#8217;s work. If you like it, you should check out his book book\u00a0Superintelligence. It also\u00a0discusses many of\u00a0Ray Kurzweil&#8217;s\u00a0ideas.\u00a0Some of which are a bit\u00a0far fetched, but hey, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-m"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-9J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}