However, for readers of this blog, please note that referencing one post on a blog does not in any way constitute an endorsement of other things found on such blog.

I should go a bit further here and make it clear that the point of this post is not to advance any political agenda — I agree with the Thiel essay I’m quoting that that wouldn’t be likely to have any great effect. The bottom line is in fact almost the opposite: many of the good effects to be desired from libertarian reform can also be had, and are in fact more likely to occur, by the alternate route of introducing AIs to make us, on average, smarter and richer. Another way would be biological ways to make people smarter.

None of these options is exclusive. We should be trying all of them simultaneously. I happen to know the most about AI.

You can see a video of me making the points about AI making a better world in a debate at AGI-09.

But who fathered Bill Clinton? Probably not William Jefferson Blythe, Jr, the guy his mother was married to when he was born, because that guy was stationed in Italy nine months before the birth! (According to unsourced internet rumors.) Whoever really fathered Bill Clinton, he passed on superior upper-middle-class genes. Bill Clinton went to Ivy League schools, married another Ivy League graduate, and raised a respectable daughter (unlike Sarah Palin whose children are all losers and sluts).

Ah, yes. The good old unsourced internet rumor and calling someone’s children losers and sluts. Fine entertainment, but hardly a high standard of excellence.