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45 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 October 2007 03:16AM

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Comment author: michael_vassar3 17 October 2007 02:33:23PM 8 points [-]

This post makes me wonder how much time passed for Eliezer between concluding that a technological singularity was a probable part of the future and deciding that creating an AGI was the best response, and likewise how much time passed between concluding that AGI Friendlyness would be a difficult problem and concluding that working on a theory of AGI Friendlyness was the best response.