lukeprog comments on New AI risks research institute at Oxford University - Less Wrong

25 Post author: lukeprog 16 November 2011 06:52PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 16 November 2011 09:08:27PM 5 points [-]

As I understand it, both FHI and FutureTech are funded mostly by their founder, superhero James Martin.

Comment author: MichaelHoward 18 November 2011 04:18:39PM 0 points [-]

I wanted to leave this, but it's been preying on my mind. I'm sure you meant well & with the upvotes it's getting I'm probably misreading it so hopefully someone will correct my perceptions.

In context of what it was answering, to me it reads "Non-rich readers, your donation's not really needed at FHI and FutureTech, fund us instead!"

Score one for my new LW-gained instinct for dragging things I really don't want to think about into the open and throwing a spotlight on them.

I know SIAI specifically gains benefit from having a certain amount of money come from smaller donors. If there is real utility being misplaced here, and I imagine those directly involved with SIAI or FHI might not be able to bring up the subject for obvious reasons, the rest of us need to take the initiative and talk about it.

If this is something that Really Must Not Be Spoken, someone from SIAI send me a PM, I'll trust your judgement & delete this comment no questions asked.

Comment author: lukeprog 18 November 2011 06:26:44PM 0 points [-]

"Non-rich readers, your donation's not really needed at FHI and FutureTech, fund us instead!"

No, that's not something I meant to communicate. On funding SIAI vs. FHI, Nick and I have already spoken.