somervta comments on Hawking/Russell/Tegmark/Wilczek on dangers of Superintelligent Machines [link] - Less Wrong

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Comment author: somervta 22 April 2014 04:40:14AM *  5 points [-]

This has been circulating among the tumblrers for a little bit, and I wrote a quick infodump on where it comes from.

TL;DR: The article comes from (is co-authored by) a brand-new x-risk organization founded by Max Tegmark and four others, with all of the authors from it's scientific advisory board.