William_S comments on Superintelligence 29: Crunch time - Less Wrong

8 Post author: KatjaGrace 31 March 2015 04:24AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (26)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: William_S 04 April 2015 09:38:49PM 1 point [-]

I agree in general, but there's a lot more things than just AI safety that ought to be worked on more (ie. research on neglected diseases), and today's AI safety research might reach diminishing returns quickly because we are likely some time away from reaching human level AI. There's a funding level for AI safety research where I'd want to think about whether it was too much. I don't think we've reached that point quite yet, but it's probably worth keeping track of the marginal impact of new AI research dollars/researchers to see if it falls off.