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

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

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Comment author: CarlShulman 14 December 2010 03:07:15PM 3 points [-]

You may want to read this paper I presented at FHI. Note that there's a big difference between the probability of risk conditional on WBE coming first or AI coming first and marginal impact of effort. In particular some of our uncertainty is about logical facts about the space of algorithms and technology landscape, and some of it is about the extent and effectiveness of activism/intervention.

Comment author: multifoliaterose 14 December 2010 08:42:30PM 2 points [-]

Thanks for the very interesting reference! Is it linked on the SIAI research papers page? I didn't see it there.

Note that there's a big difference between the probability of risk conditional on WBE coming first or AI coming first and marginal impact of effort.

I appreciate this point which you've made to me previously (and which appears in your comment that I linked above!).