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

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 23 April 2014 11:02:53PM 0 points [-]

Thus we remain a small civilization but survive for a long time.

It's not obvious that having a long time is preferable. For example, optimizing a large amount of resources in a short time might be better than optimizing a small amount of resources for a long time. Whatever's preferable, that's the trade that a FAI might be in a position to facilitate.