AlexMennen comments on Reply to Holden on The Singularity Institute - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AlexMennen 10 July 2012 12:56:38AM *  7 points [-]

The purpose of an FAI team is not to blindly develop one particular approach to Friendly AI without checking to see whether this work will be obsoleted by future developments. Instead, the purpose of an FAI team is to develop highly specialized expertise on, among other things, which kinds of research are more and less likely to be relevant given future developments.

This is unsettling. It sounds a lot like trying to avoid saying anything specific.

Comment author: lukeprog 10 July 2012 01:03:47AM 11 points [-]

Eliezer will have lots of specific things to say in his forthcoming "Open Problems in Friendly AI" sequence (I know; I've seen the outline). In any case, wouldn't it be a lot more unsettling if, at this early stage, we pretended we knew enough to commit entirely to one very particular approach?

Comment author: AlexMennen 10 July 2012 02:16:52AM 10 points [-]

It's unsettling that this is still an early stage. SI has been around for over a decade. I'm looking forward to the open problems sequence; perhaps I should shut up about the lack of explanation of SI's research for now, considering that the sequence seems like a credible promise to remedy this.

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