Warrigal comments on How can I reduce existential risk from AI? - Less Wrong

46 Post author: lukeprog 13 November 2012 09:56PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 12 November 2012 01:10:25AM 0 points [-]

If you only contribute to meta work for a while, the outside view (around SI, anyway) suggests there's a good chance you'll forget to ever do anything non-meta.

Keeping a to-do list may be a cheaper way of keeping yourself from forgetting.

Comment author: lukeprog 12 November 2012 02:10:58AM 8 points [-]

I don't think it's actually a problem of "forgetting"; I should probably clarify that language. It's more about habit formation. If one takes up the habit of doing no direct work day after day, it may be difficult to break that habit later.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 November 2012 03:37:56AM 4 points [-]

Yes, good point.