Dre comments on Is Google Paperclipping the Web? The Perils of Optimization by Proxy in Social Systems - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 10 May 2010 05:50:06PM *  2 points [-]

Surely the incentive to build an AGI is so great that additional incentives are somewhat meaningless?

Comment author: Dre 10 May 2010 08:59:01PM 0 points [-]

I think the majority of people don't evaluate AGI incentives rationally, especially failing to fully see the possibilities of it. Whereas this is an easy to imagine benefit.