This thread started with a post talking about how we should 'neutralize' people who may, possibly, develop AI at some point in the future. You, specifically, replied to "Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever." with "I approve of that sentiment so long as people don't actually take it literally when the world is at stake." Others have been saying "The competent resort to violence as soon as it beats the alternatives." What, exactly, would you call that if not advocating murder?
Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.
Does it get systematic downvoting of 200 of my historic comments? Evidently - whether done by yourself or another. I'm glad I have enough karma to shrug it off but I do hope they stop soon. I have made a lot of comments over the last few years.
Edit: As a suggestion it may be better to scroll back half a dozen pages on the user page before starting a downvote protocol. I was just reading another recent thread I was active in (the social one) and some of the -1s were jarringly out of place. The kind that are never naturally downvoted.
It's probably easier to build an uncaring AI than a friendly one. So, if we assume that someone, somewhere is trying to build an AI without solving friendliness, that person will probably finish before someone who's trying to build a friendly AI.
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Wow, this is getting a rather stronger reaction than I'd anticipated. Clarification: I'm not suggesting practical measures that should be implemented. Jeez. I'm deep in an armchair, thinking about a problem that (for the moment) looks very hypothetical.
For future reference, how should I have gone about asking this question without seeming like I want to mobilize the Turing Police?