We don’t exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it’s not easy to get interests aligned. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
Your evolutionary heuristics come back to the idea of a future roughly similar to what it is now. You give to the community as it is now, to benefit a similar community in the future. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
I sometimes joke that I can take personal responsibility for saving one million human relationships. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
Once we have something that is no longer under control, once technological development is yanked out of our hands, it doesn’t have to continue to be beneficial to humans. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn’t do anything that people are doing, and we don’t really see any evidence that this is not the case. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there’s evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
