komponisto comments on Ben Goertzel on Charity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 10 March 2011 09:56:44PM 0 points [-]

Upvoted for complete agreement, particularly:

Less Wrong ought to be about reasoning, as per Common Interest of Many Causes. Like you (I presume), I would like to see more posts about reasoning and fewer, despite my transhumanist sympathies, about boxed AIs, hypothetical torture scenarios, and the optimality of donating to the Friendly AI cause: focusing our efforts that way is more interesting, more broadly appealing, and ultimately more effective for everyone involved including the SIAI.

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Bottom line, I view the friendly AI topic as something between a historical quirk and a pet example among several of the higher-status people here, and I think you should too.

Comment author: komponisto 11 March 2011 02:13:59AM 1 point [-]