gwern comments on Open Thread for January 8 - 16 2014 - Less Wrong
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I don't see any discussion about this blog post by Mike Travern.
His point is that people trying to solve for Friendly AI are doing so because it's an "easy", abstract problem well into the future. He contends that we are already taking significant damage from artificially created human systems like the financial system, which can be ascribed agency and it's goals are quite different from improving human life. These systems are quite akin to "Hostile AI". This, he contends, is the really hard problem.
Here is a quote from the blogpost (which is from a Facebook comment he made):
It's a short post, so you can read it quickly. What do you think about his argument?
Is this the new 'but what about starving Africans?'