Costanza comments on Friendly AI Research and Taskification - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Costanza 14 December 2010 04:31:07PM *  2 points [-]

Tangential question:

...good old-fashioned software engineering has revolutionised the financial markets, saving the world billions of dollars of bad investments,...

Is this true? I'd like it to be true for many reasons. But I have seen some plausible arguments that in recent years the financial sector has not been doing its job in the economy very well. For example, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_cassidy?printable=true .