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Comment author: timtyler 13 August 2010 08:13:03AM 1 point [-]

Re: "Working to build AGI right now is certainly a bad idea, at best leading nowhere, at worst killing us all."

The marginal benefit of making machines smarter seems large - e.g. see automobile safety applications: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4EY9_mOvO8

I don't really see that situation changing much anytime soon - there will probably be such marginal benefits for a long time to come.