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strong on emotion, but weak on argument

He certainly is a polyhistor, but sadly this applies to many a statement of his (or it's just me still being cross with him for getting snarky at a nuclear power pro/contra). I as a layman can't say much about the feasibility of emulating a complex neural network or other singularity-related topics, but his argumentation sounds reasonable, though.

What I wonder is, if smart people should figure out a smart process of creating a superhuman or even "god-like" AI, how will they guarantee that its agenda is congruent with my and the rest of humanity's well-being?

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As he explains in the comments, he's sick of fat singularity fanboys pestering him because of his work:

I'm not convinced that the singularity isn't going to happen. It's just that I am deathly tired of the cheerleader squad approaching me and demanding to know precisely how many femtoseconds it's going to be until they can upload into AI heaven and leave the meatsack behind.(Maybe if they paid more attention to meatsack maintenance in the short term they'd have a better chance of surviving to see the rapture of the nerds -- and even enjoy the meatsack experience along the way.)Moravec's writing is what turned me on to transhumanism in the first place, in the late 1980s/early 1990s.

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