jimrandomh comments on Singularity Institute Strategic Plan 2011 - Less Wrong

29 Post author: MichaelAnissimov 26 August 2011 11:34PM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 28 August 2011 04:52:09PM 3 points [-]

If the Rationality training is being spun off to allow Singinst to focus on FAI, why isn't the same done with the Singularity summit? The slightly-bad faith interpretation for the lack of explanation would be that retaining the training arm has internal opposition while the summit does not. If this is not an inference you like, this should be addressed.

Just speculation here, but the rationality training stuff seems to have very different scalability properties than the rest of Singinst; in the best case, there could end up being a self-supporting rationality training program in every major city. That would be awesome, but it could also dominate Singinst's attention at the expense of all the other stuff, if it wasn't partitioned off.