Michael Vassar quotes

They've actually been wiped out in all but about one person in three thousand. (Michael Vassar)
I know it's tedious, but you aren't SL4 until you appreciate the depth of human irrationality. Yes rationality is there, but at a level that just barely shows up when measured with precise instruments. This is important with respect to non-human intelligences, because super-rationality, almost as much as superintelligence, is potentially overwhelming and because intelligence bootstraping moves a system towards rationality. Appreciate how far humans are from rational and you appreciate how utterly transformed, and essentially recreated, they would be by haphazard bootstrapping. Appreciate how formidable rationality is and you see why a highly rational infrahuman GAI would still be a massive existential threat. View quote
Michael Vassar
If greater-than-human artificial general intelligence is invented without due caution, it is all but certain that the human species will be extinct in very short order. View quote
Michael Vassar