lukeprog comments on Open Problems Related to the Singularity (draft 1) - Less Wrong

39 Post author: lukeprog 13 December 2011 10:57AM

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Comment author: JoshuaFox 13 December 2011 11:29:13AM 4 points [-]

This is great!

One path to advancing research is to take advantage of some low-hanging fruit for mainstream research: A variety of problems in existing academic areas. It might be relatively easier to get people who are working "in the system" to get started on these. For example, reflective decision theory.

Comment author: lukeprog 13 December 2011 11:33:49AM 3 points [-]

Yes exactly. Same thing with value extrapolation algorithms (aka 'ideal preference' or 'full information' theories of value; see Muehlhauser & Helm 2011.)