TheOtherDave comments on Do Earths with slower economic growth have a better chance at FAI? - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 June 2013 07:54PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 13 June 2013 03:58:54PM 0 points [-]

Yes. The OP is assuming that the process of reliably defining the goals/values which characterize FAI is precisely what requires a "mathier and more insight-based" process which parallelizes less well and benefits less from brute-force computing power.