atucker comments on A cynical explanation for why rationalists worry about FAI - Less Wrong

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Comment author: atucker 04 August 2012 11:53:49PM 9 points [-]

The actual people at SIAI are much less prone to this than the community.

When I was living in San Francisco, people would regularly discuss various experiments that they were running on themselves, or skills that they were practicing. If I tried to assert something without concrete examples or predictions, people would be skeptical.