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

46 Post author: lukeprog 10 July 2012 11:20PM

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Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 10 July 2012 01:53:00AM *  16 points [-]

How do I know that supporting SI doesn't end up merely funding a bunch of movement-building leading to no real progress?

It seems to me that the premise of funding SI is that people smarter (or more appropriately specialized) than you will then be able to make discoveries that otherwise would be underfunded or wrongly-purposed.

I think the (friendly or not) AI problem is hard. So it seems natural for people to settle for movement-building or other support when they get stuck.

That said, some of the collateral output to date has been enjoyable.

Comment author: lukeprog 11 June 2013 01:59:12AM 8 points [-]

Behold, I come bearing real progress! :)

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 11 June 2013 04:38:39AM 2 points [-]

The best possible response. I haven't ready any of them yet, but the topics seem relevant to the long range goal of becoming convinced of the Friendliness of complicated programs.