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26 Post author: AnnaSalamon 19 May 2010 08:00AM

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Comment author: ata 25 May 2010 06:41:49PM 0 points [-]

I am particularly unimpressed by and Yudkowski's cynical (and more importantly, unsubstantiated) opinion of their motivations behind AAAI's dismissal of singularity worries in their panel report.

Where did he respond to that?

Comment author: snarles 25 May 2010 06:44:56PM *  0 points [-]

I was just looking for the link:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1f4/less_wrong_qa_with_eliezer_yudkowsky_ask_your/197s

"As far as I'm concerned, these are eminent scientists from outside the field that I work in, and I have no evidence that they did anything more than snap judgment of my own subject material. It's not that I have specific reason to distrust these people - the main name I recognize is Horvitz and a fine name it is. But the prior probabilities are not good here."