RobQ comments on Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions - Less Wrong

16 Post author: MichaelGR 11 November 2009 03:00AM

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Comment author: RobQ 13 November 2009 04:21:43AM 5 points [-]

Fear of theft is a crank trope? As someone who makes a living providing cyber security I have to say you have no idea of the daily intrusions US companies experience from foreign governments and just simple criminals.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 15 November 2009 04:54:07PM *  3 points [-]

Theft of higher level more abstract ideas is much rarer. It happens both in Hollywood films and in the real Hollywood, but not so frequently, as far as I can tell, in most industries. More frequently, people can't get others to follow up on high generality ideas. Apple and Microsoft, for instance, stole ideas from Xerox that Xerox had been sitting on for years, they didn't steal ideas that Xerox was working on and compete with Xerox.

Comment author: MichaelGR 18 November 2009 06:35:54PM 0 points [-]

Indeed, but my point is that AGI isn't a film or normal piece of software.

The cost vs benefits analysis of would be thieves would look at lot different.