# Summary of IRC Discussion on March 20, 2016

* FourFire and maaku engaged in a detailed debate about AGI safety, with FourFire arguing that defensive AGI systems are needed to protect humanity from resource-optimizing AGIs, while maaku countered that proper information security protocols and physical containment make AGI existential risks manageable.

* Maaku expressed concern that many talented people are being "lured into the honeytrap" of existential risk research rather than doing what he considers more productive work, suggesting that if superintelligence "tiles the universe with computronium, mission accomplished."

* FourFire described his DNA project aimed at developing genetic algorithms to evaluate protein performance, with the goal of potentially evolving human histones and DNA repair mechanisms to contribute to longevity research.

* Maaku suggested that protein design is potentially an "AGI-complete" problem, but encouraged FourFire to continue his work, noting that specialized heuristics for design space search could provide valuable advantages in the near term.

* Pasky shared a pre-peer review version of his paper on deep learning for sentence processing: http://pasky.or.cz/sps.pdf

* A brief discussion occurred about the limitations of human intelligence as a model for AGI, with maaku stating "humans are shitty general intelligences" and "a horrible thinking architecture to emulate."