MugaSofer comments on Snowdenizing UFAI - Less Wrong

5 Post author: JoshuaFox 05 December 2013 02:42PM

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Comment author: JoshuaFox 06 December 2013 08:40:06AM 0 points [-]

...which is kind of the point :-)

Comment author: falenas108 06 December 2013 04:51:17PM *  1 point [-]

No, Kyre is saying that potential ethical AGI researchers have this page in their history, which will likely lead to the government not hiring them for this project. Meaning there will be less ethical researchers on the project.

EDIT: Never mind, gjm and James_Miller already said the same thing.

Comment author: JoshuaFox 07 December 2013 05:14:35PM 0 points [-]

Right, this is the moral problem of "dirty hands" (Sartre). Do the good people stay out and keep their hands clean, leaving the field to the less scrupulous. Or do the join the system and try to achieve change from within. It's not easy to answer such questions.