Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
And this is the reason I&#x27;m somewhat skeptical of predictions of future superhuman AI. The world is complicated and full of all kinds of details we overlook. Creating a general purpose AI that&#x27;s able to bootstrap itself to being better than all humans at everything seems like ignoring all the difficulties it will run into. It&#x27;s easy to imagine when not taking everything into account, but extremely hard to realize.<p>And it&#x27;s also why I think he paperclip maximizer and gray goo scenarios are silly. Maybe it&#x27;s theoretically possible to create something that would eat the world, but in order to do so, it would have to overcome every obstacle the world throws at it. Again, easy to imagine, extremely hard to realize. All those details get in the way.