Raw LLM Responses

> My question is this: How much of your fear of the potential dangers of A.I. is based around the writing of noted futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil? It is important to understand that Kurzweil is only one of many futurist writers who specialize in and has written on topics pertaining to a technological singularity. The concept of an intelligence explosion dates back (at least) to comments made in 1965 by [I.J. Good](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._J._Good). [Nick Bostrom](http://www.nickbostrom.com/) has recently written about the topic in his book Superintelligence, and this is probably more pertinent to Dr Hawkings remarks than Kurzweil's. > years of living from innovation might have made Kurzweil too uncritical of his own theories. Much of the gains seem to be independent of 'innovation' in the sense of actual new inventions, rather they come (in a more deterministic manner) from economic growth. For example, we build larger and larger silicon processing centers that can use economies of scale to produce more efficient circuits per dollar because they can handle very large amounts of very pure substances, which would not be possible in a smaller industry. Another reason production gets cheaper over time is because machines are used to do more of the work involved in producing other machines. The amount of human work involved in scaling up is reduced to a smaller fraction, the more is automated. Since faster chips make it realistic to automate more tasks, this is a self-feeding process. That applies to building larger buildings, as well as to laser-etching more intricate microchips. A (currently theoretical, but I'd say not for long) case of automation making things radically cheaper would be a fully self-replicating robot that requires no human effort (this is distinct from human direction -- it need not be fully independent, the point is a person is not needed to solve problems) at the margin, just raw materials, energy, and time. Such a system cou