fubarobfusco comments on Please advise the Singularity Institute with your domain-specific expertise! - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 16 March 2012 09:07:15AM 9 points [-]

By the same reasoning, obviously SIAI is only asking for computer security experts because they're running their website on PHP3 on XP SP1 with no firewall.

No, wait, that doesn't make sense at all. People often employ experts on whatever to maintain or improve their current level of whatever, not merely because they are grossly deficient in whatever.

Comment author: Larks 16 March 2012 12:19:22PM 4 points [-]

By the same reasoning, obviously SIAI is only asking for computer security experts because they're running their website on PHP3 on XP SP1 with no firewall.

Nah, they're just running an AI on a laptop, with no security other than having taken out the fan so it overheats whenever it attempts to download instructions for Anthrax.

Comment author: Gabriel 16 March 2012 03:00:03PM 1 point [-]

But now it managed to break loose and send some weird orders to protein synthesis companies. And there was that long, heartfelt chat with a bunch of high ranking US Army officers. Hence the need for experts on nuclear security, bio-security and disease control.