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Andrew Ng: 'Do we think the world is better off with more or less intelligence?'

18 points| mgreg | 2 years ago |ft.com

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xchip|2 years ago

Oversimplification, as a logical fallacy, involves presenting a complex issue or situation in an overly simplistic manner, neglecting essential details and nuances.

artninja1988|2 years ago

Did you read the article or just the headline?

fuzzfactor|2 years ago

When it comes to natural intelligence it seems the trend since time immemorial has been that those having higher intelligence would like to see more of it overall.

OTOH, those having the lower intelligence seem like they would prefer a world of declining brainpower instead, and ASAP.

To them it's just too intimidating like it is now.

You can't expect such intelligence-dependent things like that to be much different when it comes to artificial or imitation intelligence of any kind.

That would be so uncanny as to be unrecognizable.

chii|2 years ago

> OTOH, those having the lower intelligence seem like they would prefer a world of declining brainpower instead, and ASAP.

Only in so far as they themselves are still just as intelligent relatively compared to others.

patrickhogan1|2 years ago

This is one of the better Andrew Ng interviews.

jebarker|2 years ago

The world or humans?

notnullorvoid|2 years ago

Do we think humans are better off if the world has more intelligence?

The answer is undoubtedly yes IF that intelligence is distributed rather than concentrated. Further concentration of intelligence (power) would be detrimental.

Edit to clarify: I mean distributed in the individual sense, not regional or governmental which fall into the detrimental outcome.