katydee comments on Q&A #2 with Singularity Institute Executive Director - Less Wrong

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Comment author: katydee 18 December 2011 08:51:00PM 2 points [-]

Do you think that the same thing might be the case for other x-risks organizations? I recall that the previous analysis of other future tech safety/x-risks organizations didn't seem to find anything very promising-- might it be the case that those organizations also have stuff going on behind the scenes? If so, this seems like it might be a significant barrier to the greater x-risks community, since these organizations may be duplicating one another's results or otherwise inefficiently allocating their respective resources, volunteers, etc.

Comment author: lukeprog 19 December 2011 12:41:40AM 0 points [-]

It's always the case that more research is being done than gets published. I know it's true for FHI, too. It's just especially true of SI.

Comment author: katydee 19 December 2011 05:59:39PM 2 points [-]

I was thinking more about groups like Lifeboat or IEET, who don't really appear to be doing any research at all, as opposed to FHI/SIAI, who do at least occasionally publish.