Kaj_Sotala comments on Friendly AI Research and Taskification - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 18 December 2010 11:12:05AM *  5 points [-]

I'm not speaking for SIAI as this is more of a Visiting Fellows thing than an SIAI thing, but there are people working on Friendliness, and creating a Friendliness roadmap. We have lists of hundreds of problems, and lists of potentially relevant fields or concepts.

Meh. Now I'm a bit annoyed in that I did try to poke people into a direction where they'd do something like that when I was there as a Visiting Fellow, but mostly the reaction seemed to be "we should leave all thinking about Friendliness to Eliezer". But upon reflection, I realize that I may not have been as vocal about that as I thought I was (illusion of transparency and all that), so I guess I only have myself to blame for you guys only starting on all the real interesting stuff after I left. ;p

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 18 December 2010 11:24:59AM 4 points [-]

Meh. Now I'm a bit annoyed in that I did try to poke people into a direction where they'd do something like that when I was there as a Visiting Fellow, but mostly the reaction seemed to be "we should leave all thinking about Friendliness to Eliezer".

That's... disturbing, although expected. Why isn't Visiting Fellows program used to strengthen this line of research? There could be practical difficulties in moving there quickly, but it's confusing if it's not even a goal.

Comment author: wedrifid 18 December 2010 11:17:22AM 3 points [-]

but mostly the reaction seemed to be "we should leave all thinking about Friendliness to Eliezer".

Huh? But, but... surely there room for at least half a dozen people in that particular basement!