John_Maxwell_IV comments on Characterizing the superintelligence which we are concerned about - Less Wrong

9 Post author: JoshuaFox 01 April 2012 06:40PM

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Comment author: shminux 02 April 2012 07:12:38PM 2 points [-]

If you think that you can delay the AGI advancement by withholding some of your ideas from this forum, you grossly overestimate both your own importance and that of this forum.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 02 April 2012 09:58:39PM 1 point [-]

I don't think the impact of writing my comment would've been significant, but I don't see any reason to make our situation worse on the margin.

Comment author: keefe 13 April 2012 08:07:25PM 1 point [-]

For you, posting about the fact that you decided not to post it reinforces the idea that you are important enough to have an impact with a blog post, which is more likely to reinforce the most common bias of intelligent people.