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Becker, A. (2025). More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity. New York: Basic Books.
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| Resource type: Book Published ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781668647967 BibTeX citation key: Becker2025 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Language: en: English Categories: AI/Machine Learning Keywords: Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Creators: Becker Publisher: Basic Books (New York) |
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p. 34
Intelligence is more than problem-solving. But it’s not clear what intelligence really is, and even less clear how to measure it. Psychologists have studied intelligence systematically for well over a century; the actual existence of some measure of overall intelligence, which they dub “general intelligence” or just g for short, is debatable at best. Statistically, there’s no good case for the actual existence of g.”
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p. 45
“Because the goals of an AGI are unlikely to be compatible with human goals, and because an AGI would seek to improve itself in pursuit of those goals, that guarantees the development of almost any AGI will lead to a near-instant explosion in its intelligence, followed shortly by the end of the world. The only way to avoid this, Yudkowsky says, is to ensure beforehand that the AI’s desires are aligned with those of humanity at large, and ensuring that isn’t easy.”
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9/11/26, 1:11 AM
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p. 112
Why would an AGI necessarily look to self-improve? Cegłowski, who was born in Poland, says the idea that a superintelligent being would inevitably want to improve itself is “unabashedly American.” “My roommate was the smartest person I ever met in my life. He was incredibly brilliant, and all he did was lie around and play World of Warcraft between bong rips,” he says. “The assumption that any intelligent agent will want to recursively self-improve, let alone conquer the galaxy, to better achieve its goals makes unwarranted assumptions about the nature of motivation.” And, Cegłowski adds, there’s a similarly American myth about lone geniuses that sits at the heart of this whole project. “A recurring flaw in AI alarmism is that it treats intelligence as a property of individual minds, rather than recognizing that this capacity is distributed across our civilization and culture.”
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p. 123
"Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness."
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