Robin Hanson wrote:
The anchor that I start with is my rough estimate of how long whole brain emulation will take, and so I'm most interesting in comparing AGI to that anchor. The fact that people are prone to take these estimate questions as attitude surveys is all the more reason to seek concrete arguments, rather than yet more attitudes.
An interesting comment, given that what I offered was a set of concrete arguments about the way that AGI will (or should) develop, but your reply was that you did not need to consider the actual content of these arguments, because you could substitute a casual survey of some attitudes instead: Robin Hanson wrote:
I have to give a lot of weight to the apparent fact that most AI researchers have not yet been convinced to accept your favored approach. More persuasive to me are arguments for fast AI based on more widely shared premises.
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