Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Call for new SIAI Visiting Fellows, on a rolling basis - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 December 2009 03:02:45PM 9 points [-]

Your own answer is also pretty relevant to FAI. Because anything that confuses you can turn out to contain the black box surprise from hell.

Until you know, you don't know if you need to know, you don't know how much you need to know, and you don't know the penalty for not knowing.