Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes
Eliezer Yudkowsky — American Writer born on September 11, 1979,
Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky is an American writer, blogger, and advocate for friendly artificial intelligence. He is a Research Fellow and co-founder at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a private research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California... (wikipedia)
The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.
