JamesAndrix comments on Less Wrong: Open Thread, September 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JamesAndrix 01 September 2010 05:41:48AM 4 points [-]

2 is ambiguous. Getting to the stars requires a number of things to go right. Eliezer serves relatively little use in preventing a major nuclear exchange in the next 10 years, or bad nanotech , or garage made bio weapons, or even UFAI development.

FAI is just the final thing that needs to go right, everything else needs to go mostly right until then.

Comment author: Snowyowl 01 September 2010 11:19:59AM 2 points [-]

And I can think of a few ways humanity can get to the stars even if FAI never happens.