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

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Comment author: Jordan 07 December 2009 01:50:37AM 0 points [-]

How valuable is trying to shape the two probability distributions themselves? Should we be devoting resources to encouraging people to do research in computational neuroscience instead of AGI?

Comment author: CarlShulman 07 December 2009 01:56:07AM 1 point [-]

It's hard to change the rate of development of fields. It's easier to do and publish core analyses of the issues with both approaches, so as to 1) Know better where to focus efforts 2) Make a more convincing case for any reallocation of resources.