Comment by xbmcuser
1 hour ago
To me, the funniest part is that they pretend reaching superintelligence will somehow fix everything and make them win. But from what I can see, even if they do reach it, then what? What will that actually do? They don't have the manufacturing capacity to even use that intelligence. It will take decades to go from superintelligence to having the manufacturing capacity and the hardware, like robots, needed to make it truly useful. If I were China, as soon as the US reached superintelligence, I'd ban all exports of robots and the raw materials to build them.
You can very quickly start trying different drug candidates, solving some major problems, that benefit everyone and would be in China's mutual interest as well.
And this is all with nonoffensive use of superintelligence.
Super intelligence won't accelerate time.
> If I were China, as soon as the US reached superintelligence, I'd ban all exports of robots and the raw materials to build them.
Aha, so maybe the AI labs have superintelligence and just don't want China to know? And that's why they are playing these word games now?
I do think something does happen/change when we reach superintelligence.
>If I were China, as soon as the US reached superintelligence, I'd ban all exports of robots and the raw materials to build them.
I mean, if you were China what could you do against superintelligence? A ban like that would automatically make you an enemy.
Super Intelligence will do what, fire nukes? North Korea, for example, will continue to exist very close to how they are currently after some country develop superintelligence.