FAWS comments on (One reason) why capitalism is much maligned - Less Wrong

1 Post author: multifoliaterose 19 July 2010 03:48AM

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Comment author: FAWS 19 July 2010 04:10:17PM 0 points [-]

(Of course, FAI is possible in principle, by its very problem statement, but might be more difficult than for humanity grow up for itself.)

Could you rephrase that? I have no idea what you are saying here.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 19 July 2010 04:14:34PM *  5 points [-]

FAI is a device for producing good outcome. Humanity itself is such a device, to some extent. FAI as AI is an attempt to make that process more efficient, to understand the nature of good and design a process for producing more of it. If it's in practice impossible to develop such a device significantly more efficient than humanity, then we just let the future play out, guarding it against known failure modes, such as AGI with arbitrary goals.

Comment author: FAWS 19 July 2010 04:20:41PM 2 points [-]

Thank you, now I see how the short version says the same thing, even though it sounded like gibberish to me before. I think I agree.