Don't Fear the Reaper: Refuting Bostrom's Superintelligence Argument
A preprint by Sebastian Benthall, arXiv:1702.08495, dated 27 February 2017. arXiv v1 submission date.
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- Fast or hard takeoffBenthall's paper of February 2017 argues, using a Bayesian model of a reasoning agent, that there are important limits to how far an agent can improve its predictive ability through self-modification alone, and so rejects the scenario of rapid self-improvement to superintelligence.2017-02-27 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Fast or hard takeoff: propositions page →
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