Luke_A_Somers comments on Why AGI is extremely likely to come before FAI - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 01 August 2012 02:10:04PM 4 points [-]

The fact that EY seems to be focusing on promoting rationality and writing (admittedly awesome) harry potter fanfiction

His rate of production of HP:MoR is inconsistent with that being anything like his main focus.

Comment author: gwern 01 August 2012 03:30:01PM 3 points [-]

It's a conjunction; CFAR and HP:MoR. The former does seem to be taking up his time...

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 01 August 2012 09:06:00PM 2 points [-]

And 'anything like' was a word choice specifically chosen to question HP:MoR's inclusion in the set of main focus things.

Comment author: hankx7787 03 August 2012 11:29:24PM 0 points [-]

You're missing the point. He didn't say strictly that HPMOR is his main focus, but also promoting rationality. And thus,

seems to indicate that he doesn’t currently know how to write FAI (and nor does anyone else) otherwise he would be focusing on that now, and instead is planning for the long term.

Which sounds exactly right to me.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 06 August 2012 10:25:29AM 0 points [-]

I'm not missing the point, I'm nitpicking. There's a difference.

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