Just can ' t put your finger on it ? <| sep |> Exactly . Never had a problem with police . Just be nice to them and treat them with respect and they will be nice to you . <| sep |> I am actually agnostic on the Orthogonality Thesis mainly because I think that it ' s truth value will depend on very subtle changes in understanding what intelligence in a vacuum i . e . without any associated goals can mean and how it can be instantiated , which I hold is currently unknown or at least underspecified . I agree that there are generally many ways how we can fuck things up unintentionally , but for each of those there are many more ways how some can intentionally fuck things up for others without making use of fictional technology . I claim that if you are really deeply intellectually worried about the dangers of superintelligence , as Harris says he is , you should be much more deeply intellectually worried about lots and lots of other things . In fact , I think that Harris ' puzzlement about why he can ' t emotionally relate to these intellectual worries is easily explained because they constitute bold speculations with not much going for them currently , other than the hope that general A . I . and an associated intelligence explosion might be just around the corner . Such speculations can certainly be seen as fun and insightful brain teasers for nerds in ivory towers me included , but one should not pretend that there is any imminence or real danger about which the public needs to be informed . I will definitely check out Bostrom ' s book once I find the time . I really liked his work on selfsampling , so maybe he will be able to convert me .