Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 29, 2016, at Web Camp Zagreb [video] (45 mins) In 1945, as American physicists were preparing to test the atomic bomb, it occurred to someone to ask if such a test could set the atmosphere on fire. This was a legitimate concern. Nitrogen, which makes up most of the atmosphere, is not energetically stable. Smush two nitrogen atoms together hard e

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