wedrifid comments on The Importance of Self-Doubt - Less Wrong

23 Post author: multifoliaterose 19 August 2010 10:47PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 20 August 2010 07:45:23AM *  1 point [-]

What Eliezer said. I was arguing from the assumption that he is wrong about FAI and stuff. If he's right about the object level, then he's not deluded in considering himself important.

Comment author: wedrifid 20 August 2010 09:32:22AM *  2 points [-]

If he's right about the object level, then he's not deluded in considering himself important.

Which, of course, would still leave the second two dot points as answers to your question.

Comment author: cousin_it 20 August 2010 09:53:59AM *  1 point [-]

How so? Eliezer's thesis is "AGI is dangerous and FAI is possible". If he's wrong - if AGI poses no danger or FAI is impossible - then what do you need a Frodo for?

Comment author: wedrifid 20 August 2010 10:36:31AM 0 points [-]

Edited the grandparent to disambiguate the context.

(I haven't discussed that particular thesis of Eliezer's and nor does doubting that particular belief seem to be a take home message from multi's post. The great grandparent is just a straightforward answer to the paragraph it quotes.)