JGWeissman comments on The Urgent Meta-Ethics of Friendly Artificial Intelligence - Less Wrong

45 Post author: lukeprog 01 February 2011 02:15PM

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Comment author: XiXiDu 01 February 2011 02:44:18PM 5 points [-]

Rather, my point is that we need lots of smart people working on these meta-ethical questions.

I'm curious if the SIAI shares that opinion. Is Michael Vassar trying to hire more people or is his opinion that a small team will be able to solve the problem? Can the problem be subdivided into parts, is it subject to taskification?

Comment author: JGWeissman 01 February 2011 06:14:11PM 3 points [-]

Is Michael Vassar trying to hire more people or is his opinion that a small team will be able to solve the problem?

On this sort of problem that can be safely researched publicly, SIAI need not hire people to get them to work on the problem. They can also engage the larger academic community to get them interested in finding practical answers to these questions.