private_messaging comments on The Singularity Institute's Arrogance Problem - Less Wrong

63 Post author: lukeprog 18 January 2012 10:30PM

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Comment author: atucker 19 January 2012 10:53:59AM *  11 points [-]

You re-wrote the story of Harry Potter. How is this relevant to saving the world, again?

It's actually been incredibly useful to establishing the credibility of every x-risk argument that I've had with people my age.

"Have you read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality?"

"YES!"

"Ah, awesome!"

merriment ensues

topic changes to something about things that people are doing

"So anyway the guy who wrote that also does...."

Comment author: private_messaging 27 July 2012 04:02:23PM 0 points [-]

You know what would be awesome, it's if Eliezer wrote original Harry Potter to obtain funding for the SI.

Seriously, there is a plenty of people whom I would not pay to work on AI, who accomplished far more than anyone at SI, in the more relevant fields.

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