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101 Post author: So8res 30 January 2014 08:00PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 February 2014 09:17:44PM 9 points [-]

Yeah, could I take five minutes to stump for more people getting involved in FAI issues? I've read through the MIRI/FHI papers on the subject, and the field of Machine Ethics is really currently in its infancy, with a whole lot of open questions, both philosophical and mathematical.

Now, you might despair and say, Google bought DeepMind, there's gonna be UFAI, we're all gonna die because we didn't solve this a decade ago.

I prefer to say: this field is young and growing more serious and respected. This means that the barrier to entry for a successful contribution is relatively low and the comparative advantage of possessing relevant knowledge is relatively high, compared to other things you could be pursuing with similar skills.