Unfriendly AI would kill all humans. Friendly AI would give us everything we want. It would raise us to a state of maximum utility, where we would stay.
That's the same thing. -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] On Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 9:56 AM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 21, 2026 at 8:47 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Let's define some terms. >> >> ...If you mean Legg and Hutter universal intelligence as goal >> achievement over a universal distribution of environments, then we need a >> computable approximation of that. A reasonable measure might be dollars per >> hour. That happened about 1800 when world GDP doubled from the medieval >> baseline due to technology.... >> > > As I've been saying explicitly for at least 9 years and implicitly for > more like 34 years: > > The Global Economy IS the Unfriendly AGI We've Been Wating For > > Frank Herbert's "The Santaroga Barrier" is his best and most relevant > novel. > > It sets a lower bound on "Friendly". > > PS: My February 9, 2016 article "A Leggian Approach to "Friendly AI > <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leggian-approach-friendly-ai-james-bowery>" > preceded the creation of "Hugging Face". > > > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Teedaf4a19e56877e-M65ada573d80de14e0a5b693f> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Teedaf4a19e56877e-M56c7ddc00031dd454aaf8f40 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
