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[In the context of SIAI folks thinking an unpleasant AI was likely]
Re: "The justification is that uFAI is a lot easier to make."
That seems like naive reasoning. It is a lot easier to make a random mess of ASCII that crashes or loops - and yet software companies still manage to ship working products.
Still, a lot of these "working products" are the output of a filtering process which starts from a random mess of ASCII that crashes or loops, and tweaks it until it's less obviously broken. (Most of the job of testing being, typically, left to the end user.)
Sure. The point is that - to conclude that a target will be missed - it is not sufficient to observe how small it is. Programmers rountinely hit miniscule targets in search spaces. To make the case, you would also need to argue that those aiming at the target are not good marksmen.