Wei_Dai comments on Advice for AI makers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 20 January 2010 05:11:33AM 4 points [-]

Hugo de Garis is around two orders of magnitude more harmless than Ben.

What about all the other people Ben might help obtain funding for, partly due to his position at SIAI?

And what about the public relations/education aspect? It's harmless that SIAI appears to not consider AI to be a serious existential risk?

Comment author: wedrifid 20 January 2010 12:26:58PM 6 points [-]

And what about the public relations/education aspect? It's harmless that SIAI appears to not consider AI to be a serious existential risk?

This part was not answered. It may be a question to ask someone other than Eliezer. Or just ask really loudly. That sometimes works too.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 January 2010 06:37:00AM 4 points [-]

What about all the other people Ben might help obtain funding for, partly due to his position at SIAI?

The reverse seems far more likely.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 20 January 2010 12:16:06PM 1 point [-]

What about all the other people Ben might help obtain funding for, partly due to his position at SIAI?

The reverse seems far more likely.

I don't know how to parse that. What do you mean by "the reverse"?

Comment author: wedrifid 20 January 2010 12:23:09PM 1 point [-]

I don't know how to parse that. What do you mean by "the reverse"?

Ben's position at SIAI may reduce the expected amount of funding he obtains for other existentially risky persons.