Sewing-Machine comments on Dr. Jubjub predicts a crisis - Less Wrong

50 Post author: Apprentice 10 January 2014 03:52PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 11 January 2014 05:52:00AM 0 points [-]

You don't have more information about the hundred-year effects of your third-world poverty options than you do about the hundred-year effects of your AI options.

Comment author: ChrisHallquist 11 January 2014 06:00:46AM 6 points [-]

Effects of work on AI are all about the long run. Working on third-world poverty, on the other hand, has important and measurable short-run benefits.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 January 2014 06:02:24AM 3 points [-]

Good point!