Dias comments on The Unfriendly Superintelligence next door - Less Wrong

48 Post author: jacob_cannell 02 July 2015 06:46PM

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Comment author: shminux 24 June 2015 08:54:14PM 0 points [-]

TL;DR: Let life- and health-insurance companies, which are interested in minimizing insurance claims, not maximizing health-related sales, set the health research agenda.

Hmm, I wonder how well this would work?

Comment author: Dias 27 June 2015 09:17:19PM 0 points [-]

You've misunderstood Jacob's suggestion. Under his system there are no 'claims' - the health insurer simply pays for whatever healthcare it thinks will extend promote your health, up to the value it gets from your prolonged health (presumably around $100k / QALY )