superintelligences

Just as all the emotions we feel are present in some simpler form in animals, which allows us to empathize with them and feel some sort of kinship, so I would hope that any A.I. superintelligences which might exist in the future would be similar to us in the same broad way.

Matthew Yglesias » Monday Wilson Quarterly Blogging 2009

Books have been written about the ancient astronauts and the lost continents, weaving wonderful stories about visits by superintelligences from other worlds that left behind tantalizing clues to their existence.

August 2005 2005

It would be nice to think that transhuman or fully posthuman superintelligences should be above the follies that have always plagued humankind, but I see no reason to believe that will actually be the case.

The Speculist: June 2006 Archives 2006

For another, my bet is that superintelligence is likely to result from a synergy between IA and uploading, not just the explosion of classical AI: ie, those superintelligences will be direct memetic descendants of us, and their morality can be expected to be an evolved version of our own.

The Speculist: Posthuman Ethics 2006

Should we demand that posthuman superintelligences be democratically accountable to us?

The Speculist: Posthuman Ethics 2006

But, at the same time, once the superintelligences are active, there won't be anything to reign them in but the other superintelligences.

The Speculist: Posthuman Ethics 2006

It would be nice to think that transhuman or fully posthuman superintelligences should be above the follies that have always plagued humankind, but I see no reason to believe that will actually be the case.

The Speculist: Survey Results 10-13 2006

Should we demand that posthuman superintelligences be democratically accountable to us?

The Speculist: Posthuman Ethics 2006

VIII - these people don't even bother with the markets, because they're in resonant communication with hyper-galactic superintelligences and know money won't exist in four years.

King Lud IC 2009

[They] generally discounted the possibility of highly centralized superintelligences and the idea that intelligence might spring spontaneously from the Internet.

Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome 2009