Holden presumably thinks that many academic AGI approaches are too risky since they are agent designs:
I believe that tools are safer than agents (even agents that make use of the best "Friendliness" theory that can reasonably be hoped for) and that SI encourages a focus on building agents, thus increasing risk.
Nick Szabo thinks working on mind uploading is a waste of time.
I personally promoted intelligence amplification and argued that working on security is of little utility.
Robin Hanson thinks the Singularity will be an important event that we can help make better by improving laws/institutions or advancing certain technologies ahead of others, and presumably would disagree that we should stop worrying about it.
Holden presumably thinks that many academic AGI approaches are too risky since they are agent designs:
He's an example of biased selection in critics. No detailed critique from him wouldn't have been heard if he didn't take it seriously enough in the first place.
Nick Szabo thinks working on mind uploading is a waste of time.
You don't work on mind uploading today, you work on neurology, that solves a lot of practical problems including treatments for disorders, and which may lead to uploading, or not. I am rather sceptical that the future mind uploadi...
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Lately I've been pondering the fact that while there are many critics of SIAI and its plan to form a team to build FAI, few of us seem to agree on what SIAI or we should do instead. Here are some of the alternative suggestions offered so far: