You just made the case for what I was arguing in "A Leggian Approach to "Friendly AI <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leggian-approach-friendly-ai-james-bowery>". Just as everyone has their definition of "intelligence," everyone has their definition of "friendly" and "unfriendly". You have yours.
On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 9:42 AM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > 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-M56c7ddc00031dd454aaf8f40> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Teedaf4a19e56877e-M553abc553667014c578c5806 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
