Comment by salawat

>I don't buy it, mainly because the network of neurons and how they interact in our wet slow electrochemical brains, while being in theory mathematically equivalent to a software neural network, isn't sufficiently well understood to tell us how close the software neural network is to being practically equivalent.

If you're ignorant enough to not understand practical equivalence, where do you get off making the judgement call of to what degree it is safely offset from emergent AGI? Sounds more to me like "This makes my life easier, iterating would increase that factor, and the risk is probably far away, therefore, keep iterating". Whereas someone who truly knew they didn't understand what they were working with, but knew enough that they could forsee an x-risk would approach things much more cautiously.

Seriously, the level of reckless abandon amongst people here should be bloody studied.