Apprentice comments on AALWA: Ask any LessWronger anything - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Apprentice 12 January 2014 03:11:24PM *  2 points [-]

Thank you. I didn't phrase my question very well but what I was trying to get at was whether making a friendly AGI might be, by some measurement, orders of magnitude more difficult than making a non-friendly one.

Comment author: JoshuaFox 12 January 2014 07:11:43PM 3 points [-]

Yes, it is orders of magnitude more different. If we took a hypothetical FAI-capable team, how much less time would it take them to make a UFAI than a FAI, assuming similar levels of effort, and starting at today's knowledge levels?

One-tenth the time seems like a good estimate.