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Reframing Superintelligence (2019)
K. Eric Drexler, Reframing Superintelligence: Comprehensive AI Services as General Intelligence, Future of Humanity Institute Technical Report 2019-1, University of Oxford, January 2019. Sections were written and circulated as drafts from December 2016. The report argues that general, superintelligent-level capability can take the form of a growing set of AI services, including the service of developing new services, and that this reframes both the prospects for superintelligence and the problems of AI safety.
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What it is |
Use it for |
reframing-superintelligence-fhi-tr-2019-1.pdf |
The report as published (210 pages), the copy archived at Oxford's research archive: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9c05427a-6390-4b42-9c55-ee45f73a26ad |
Authoritative text, figures and page numbers |
extended-toc.md (and .pdf) |
The extended table of contents: every section and subsection heading, with each section's thesis. The headings were written as propositions, so it reads as a summary of the whole argument. Prepared with a model; all 419 entries were checked verbatim against the edition |
A short overview of the whole report |
edition/ |
A verbatim Markdown edition converted from the author's LaTeX source: one file per section, plus index.md (section theses), references.md, VERIFICATION.md (conversion checks) and full.md. Figures are not reproduced; their model-written descriptions are marked editorial |
Reading, quoting and retrieval |
precursors/ |
The author's slides for an FHI/DeepMind AI safety seminar (Oxford, 2 March 2017) and for a talk at OpenAI (21 June 2018), which date the R&D-automation model of recursive improvement, the "no self" argument and the conditions that disrupt collusion |
Dating and development of the ideas |
Duplication. edition/full.md is the section files concatenated in reading order, for single-file use. Use either it or the section files, not both; a retrieval index built over both will return every passage twice. The PDF and the edition have the same text; the edition omits the figures.