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

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Comment author: XiXiDu 04 March 2012 05:10:17PM *  0 points [-]

As I see it, P(AS says some people would be alienated | SI has a terrible secret strategy) is about equal to P(AS says some people would be alienated | SI has an un-terrible secret strategy), so the likelihood ratio is about one...

If I was to accept your estimation then the associated utility of P(people alienated | terrible strategy) and P(people alienated | un-terrible strategy) would force you to act according to the first possibility.

Comment author: satt 05 March 2012 02:20:11AM 0 points [-]

I don't follow. Do you mean that the potential disutility of SI having a terrible strategy is so much bigger than the potential utility of SI having an un-terrible strategy that, given equal likelihoods, I should act against SI? If so, I disagree.