True, but only under contract claims. The enforcement of NDAs doesn’t fall under the purview of the DMCA, which is what HBO cited when requesting the takedown.

‘He’s not adding anything of value to the conversation’.

A brain in a vat wouldn’t be AI, in the strictest sense of the word. The brain in the vat could be augmented to superintelligent levels and then maybe design an AI of its own, but the brain, having evolved naturally, would be natural intelligence.

This may very well be, but I would argue this is still not much of a threat from °people like Elon Musk°. An °asshole capitalist° would not be concerned with proceeding cautiously. Any AI developer, capitalist or otherwise, who proceeded recklessly for their own benefit would be the asshole.

This threat is not all that great, at least not from folks like Elon Musk. Anyone concerned with the safe development of AI (even if AI is a wet dream) will proceed with development cautiously, °not° putting too many things under its control. Whether the machine is conscious or not, the designer(s) will limit the…

I’m sure the singularity colors the imaginations of way more than 10,000, and not only dorks.

The greatest likelihood is that no one is close enough to an ASI to have an informed opinion on how to implement international oversight of the development process. Since we don’t actually know what steps lead to ASI we may be months from it and not know. If we are truthful we ought admit that the first response…