Vladimir_Nesov comments on "Outside View!" as Conversation-Halter - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 February 2010 05:53AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 24 February 2010 11:19:12AM *  1 point [-]

"Eventually, some AI will go FOOM, locally self-improvingly rather than global-economically"

Ouch. This statement smells to me like backtracking from your actual position. If you honestly have no time estimate beyond "eventually", why does the SIAI exist? Don't you have any more urgent good things to do?

(edited to remove unrelated arguments, there will be time for them later)

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 24 February 2010 07:04:15PM *  2 points [-]

There is a path of retreat from belief in sudden FOOM, that still calls for working on FAI (no matter what is feasible, we still need to preserve human value as effectively as possible, and FAI is pretty much this project, FOOM or not):