Stuart_Armstrong comments on Advice for AI makers - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 14 January 2010 11:32AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 January 2010 03:43:34AM 11 points [-]

"And I heard a voice saying 'Give up! Give up!' And that really scared me 'cause it sounded like Ben Kenobi." (source)

Friendly AI is a humongous damn multi-genius-decade sized problem. The first step is to realize this, and the second step is to find some fellow geniuses and spend a decade or two solving it. If you're looking for a quick fix you're out of luck.

The same (albeit to a lesser degree) is fortunately also true of Artificial General Intelligence in general, which is why the hordes of would-be meddling dabblers haven't killed us all already.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 15 January 2010 10:20:19AM 2 points [-]

That's the justification he gave me: he won't be able to make much of a difference to the subject, so he won't be generating much risk.

Since he's going to do it anyway, I was wondering whether there were safer ways of doing so.