jsteinhardt comments on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) - Less Wrong

256 Post author: HoldenKarnofsky 11 May 2012 04:31AM

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 11 May 2012 05:51:45PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure what you mean by

Hanson is on the same page as the rest of SIAI with regard to expected utility

As Holden and Eliezer both explicitly state, SIAI itself rejects the "but there's still a chance" argument.

Comment author: sufferer 13 May 2012 07:17:28PM 1 point [-]

It all depends on how small that small chance is. Pascal mugging is typically done with probabilities that are exponentially small, e.g. 10^-10 or so.

But what about if Holden is going to not recommend SIAI for donations when there's a 1% or 0.1% chance of it making that big difference.