Bugmaster comments on Q&A with new Executive Director of Singularity Institute - Less Wrong

26 Post author: lukeprog 07 November 2011 04:58AM

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Comment author: Bugmaster 07 November 2011 10:57:59AM 15 points [-]

The stated goal of SIAI is "to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence benefits society". What metric or heuristic do you use in order to determine how much progress you (as an organization) are making toward this goal ? Given this heuristic, can you estimate when your work will be complete ?

Comment author: lukeprog 11 November 2011 03:40:52PM 4 points [-]

What metric or heuristic do you use in order to determine how much progress you (as an organization) are making toward this goal?

There is no such metric for mathematical and philosophical breakthroughs. We're just doing it as quickly as we can given our level of funding.