Kaj_Sotala comments on So You Want to Save the World - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 27 December 2011 09:36:55PM *  10 points [-]

At this point, I'll need to assume some familiarity with the subject matter. If you haven't already, take a few hours to read these five articles, and then come back:

Yudkowsky (2008a)
Sandberg & Bostrom (2008)
Chalmers (2010)
Omohundro (2011)
Armstrong et al. (2011)

Not having the names of the articles here seems odd.

I would recommend against offering AI Risk as the first article: to someone who doesn't already know why the beginning is relevant, it seems to take a long while to get to the point and is generally not what I'd use as an introduction. Put Chalmers' article first, perhaps.

Comment author: lukeprog 27 December 2011 09:54:19PM 9 points [-]
Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 27 December 2011 10:00:48PM 1 point [-]

Better.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 28 December 2011 02:39:31AM 6 points [-]

This encapsulates why I love this site and Lukeprog in particular.

Comment author: ciphergoth 30 December 2011 02:29:04PM 0 points [-]

Aha - now I know which ones I've already read - thanks!