asr comments on Proposal for "Open Problems in Friendly AI" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: asr 01 June 2012 05:28:19AM 2 points [-]

Interesting direction.

Couple small questions:

  • Who is the intended audience for this document? Would you be able to name specific researchers who you are hoping to influence?

  • As an alternative formulation, what's the community in which you hope to publish this?

  • Why is Eliezer-time measured in months, and Luke-time in hours?

  • Do you expect to involve folks who haven't previously been involved with SIAI? If so, when?

  • How large a research team / author list would you expect the final version to have? Is fairly large "5" or "15"?

Comment author: Solvent 01 June 2012 06:24:03AM *  3 points [-]

Why is Eliezer-time measured in months, and Luke-time in hours?

That's a good question, especially considering that 250 hours is on the order of months (6 weeks at 40 hours/week, or 4 weeks at 60 hours/week).

EDIT: Units confusion

Comment author: lukeprog 01 June 2012 09:45:25AM 3 points [-]

Oops, I meant 150 hours for me.

Eliezer's time is measured in months because he tracks his time in days not hours, so I have an easier time predicting how many days (which I can convert to months) something will take Eliezer to complete, rather than how many hours it will take him to complete.

Comment author: faul_sname 01 June 2012 05:32:13PM 1 point [-]

I get 6 weeks at 40 hours/week.

Comment author: Solvent 03 June 2012 11:33:35PM 0 points [-]

Yep, thanks for that.

Comment author: lukeprog 01 June 2012 04:16:19PM 1 point [-]

Who is the intended audience for this document?

Every smart person who is fairly persuaded to care about AI risk and then asks us, "Okay, so what's the technical research agenda?" This is a lot of people.

what's the community in which you hope to publish this?

It doesn't matter much. It's something we would email to particular humans who are already interested.

Why is Eliezer-time measured in months, and Luke-time in hours?

See here.

Do you expect to involve folks who haven't previously been involved with SIAI? If so, when?

Possibly, e.g. domain experts in micro-econ. When we need them.

How large a research team / author list would you expect the final version to have? Is fairly large "5" or "15"?

My guess is 10-ish.