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

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Comment author: gjm 22 April 2014 12:45:31PM 0 points [-]

If the quotation from their placeholder website on somertva's tumblr is to be believed, it's a "sister site" of fqxi.org. This worries me a little -- FQXI is funded by the John Templeton Foundation, which has its own agenda and one I don't much care for. Is FLI also Templeton-funded? I'm not aware that Templeton has had any particular malign influence on FQXI, though, and the people at this new organization don't seem like they've been cherry-picked for (e.g.) religion-friendliness, so maybe it's OK.

Comment author: Vika 13 June 2014 06:00:44PM 1 point [-]

No, FLI has nothing to do with the Templeton Foundation. The website was a "sister site" of the FQXi site, because both organizations are run by Max, and he wanted to keep the same web platform for simplicity.

Comment author: gjm 13 June 2014 08:13:41PM 0 points [-]

That's encouraging. Thanks for the information!