jimrandomh comments on Safety Culture and the Marginal Effect of a Dollar - Less Wrong

23 Post author: jimrandomh 09 June 2011 03:59AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (105)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: jimrandomh 09 June 2011 12:19:58PM 5 points [-]

Just one paper (AI safety or FAI design)...I will be very impressed. ... I doubt I'll have to donate even once within the next 50 years. But I would be happy to be proven wrong.

Comments like this are evidence that focus on getting papers into journals is important, relative to the amount of effort currently going into it.

Comment author: steven0461 09 June 2011 05:42:17PM 2 points [-]

And every time someone doesn't make a comment like this, it's evidence that such a focus is unimportant, so what makes you think it comes out one way rather than the other on net?

Comment author: handoflixue 09 June 2011 07:13:58PM 3 points [-]

LessWrong seems significantly more likely than normal to produce vocal dissent ("I wouldn't find this useful") rather than silence. That said, LessWrong is probably also not the majority of AI researchers, who are the actual target audience, so using ourselves as a "test market" is probably flawed on a few levels...