Strange7 comments on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Strange7 22 March 2013 05:15:18PM 2 points [-]

If all it took was "a little common sense" to do interrogations safely and ethically, the Stanford Prison Experiment wouldn't have turned out the way it did. These are not simple problems!

When a medical expert system spits out a novel plan for cancer treatment, do you think that plan would be less trustworthy, or receive less scrutiny at every stage, than one invented by human experts? If an initial trial results in some statistically significant number of rats erupting into clockwork horror and rampaging through the lab until cleansed by fire, or even just keeling over from seemingly-unrelated kidney failure, do you think the FDA would approve?