Difference between revisions of "Discontinuities in usefulness of whole brain emulation technology"
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"""Eliezer: Right. So, in other words, we get a centralized economic shock, because there's a curve here that has a little step function in it. If I can step back and describe what you're describing on a higher level of abstraction, you have emulation technology that is being developed all over the world, but there's this very sharp threshold in how well the resulting emulation runs as a function of how good your emulation technology is. The output of the emulation experiences a sharp threshold. | """Eliezer: Right. So, in other words, we get a centralized economic shock, because there's a curve here that has a little step function in it. If I can step back and describe what you're describing on a higher level of abstraction, you have emulation technology that is being developed all over the world, but there's this very sharp threshold in how well the resulting emulation runs as a function of how good your emulation technology is. The output of the emulation experiences a sharp threshold. | ||
Robin: Exactly."""<ref>https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=17yLL7B7yRrhV3J9NuiVuac3hNmjeKTVHnqiEa6UQpJk</ref> | Robin: Exactly."""<ref>https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=17yLL7B7yRrhV3J9NuiVuac3hNmjeKTVHnqiEa6UQpJk</ref> | ||
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| + | Now I'm curious if [[Paul]] would also take this position wrt WBE. because it seems like the general argument of "before someone makes a good version of a thing, they make a crappy version of it" would also apply to WBE? | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Latest revision as of 09:49, 6 May 2020
Even Robin Hanson admits that whole brain emulations would result in a foom-ish/local outcome:
"""Eliezer: Right. So, in other words, we get a centralized economic shock, because there's a curve here that has a little step function in it. If I can step back and describe what you're describing on a higher level of abstraction, you have emulation technology that is being developed all over the world, but there's this very sharp threshold in how well the resulting emulation runs as a function of how good your emulation technology is. The output of the emulation experiences a sharp threshold.
Robin: Exactly."""[1]
Now I'm curious if Paul would also take this position wrt WBE. because it seems like the general argument of "before someone makes a good version of a thing, they make a crappy version of it" would also apply to WBE?
