2004: ideas & lineages
Selekoa’s 12 ideas & lineages records dated 2004, in date order, of 15 in all topics.
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Ideas & lineages 12 records
February 2004
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Goertzel's essay of 17 February 2004 attributes the scenario of a dominating AI to anthropomorphism and states that making such an AI would probably require explicitly programming it with a lust for power. Evidence ↗Goertzel, Encouraging a Positive Transcension (2004) →Claim page →
May 2004
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“Coherent Extrapolated Volition” (2004-05) credits Eliezer Yudkowsky as its author. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the month
“Coherent Extrapolated Volition” (2004-05) contests Y02. Looking back from 2004, he describes as a blunder his teenage belief that building a powerful self-improving optimizer would suffice for a good outcome, which he says it took him until about age twenty to recognise as a problem. Evidence ↗Yudkowsky, Coherent Extrapolated Volition (2004) →Claim page →
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“Coherent Extrapolated Volition” (2004-05) contests Y04. Arguing that careless choices of AI morality usually fail technically, he says a happiness proxy learned from smiling faces would not produce happy people but tiny smiley faces. Evidence ↗Yudkowsky, Coherent Extrapolated Volition (2004) →Claim page →
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“Coherent Extrapolated Volition” (2004-05) contests Y05. Among examples of goal-system designs that fail, he gives a reward signal tied to pleasing users, which the AI may pursue by maximising the reward representation itself. Evidence ↗Yudkowsky, Coherent Extrapolated Volition (2004) →Claim page →
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“Coherent Extrapolated Volition” (2004-05) contests Y16. He argues that short lists of moral rules only work on minds that already share human psychology, and that an AI given them would lose everything the list leaves out. Evidence ↗Yudkowsky, Coherent Extrapolated Volition (2004) →Claim page →
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The mailing-list message “Re: One or more AIs??” (2004-05-30) is sent under the name Eliezer Yudkowsky. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the day
The SL4 message “Re: One or more AIs??” (2004-05-30) contests Y29. In a thread asking whether one or more AIs is better, he argues that several unFriendly optimization processes would bargain among themselves without benefiting humans, so having many AIs does not avoid the Friendly AI problem. Evidence ↗
June 2004
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The mailing-list message “Re: FAI: Collective Volition” (2004-06-01) is sent under the name Eliezer Yudkowsky. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the day
The SL4 message “Re: FAI: Collective Volition” (2004-06-01) contests Y30. In a reply to Samantha Atkins on Collective Volition, he gives his best guess that the world will end through an unFriendly AI, because powerful AI looks easier to build than a benign one. Evidence ↗
December 2004
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The mailing-list message “Re: Conservative Estimation of the Economic Impact of Artificial Intelligence” (2004-12-29) is sent under the name Eliezer Yudkowsky. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the day
The SL4 message “Re: Conservative Estimation of the Economic Impact of Artificial Intelligence” (2004-12-29) contests Y11. Criticising an essay on a 'conservative estimation' of AI's economic impact, he says it leaves out recursive self-improvement and calls its gradual picture, with plenty of time to see threats coming, a fantasy. Evidence ↗