somervta comments on MIRI strategy - Less Wrong

5 Post author: ColonelMustard 28 October 2013 03:33PM

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Comment author: somervta 29 October 2013 10:11:39PM 1 point [-]

I'd point out that much of the above is not (at least not entirely) related to his futurism - Kurweil has done a lot of other things.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 30 October 2013 03:54:12AM 0 points [-]

That was the point - he already had a lot of credibility from his earlier achievements, which might cause people to also take his futurist claims more seriously than if the same books had been written by random nobodies.

Comment author: somervta 30 October 2013 08:26:12AM 2 points [-]

Wow - reading comprehension fail, retracted.