Fluttershy comments on Open thread, Jan. 25 - Jan. 31, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 28 January 2016 03:25:59PM *  1 point [-]

he's only interested in FAI research

There's no such thing, any more than there is research into alien flying saucers with nanolasers of doom. There's a lot of fiction and armchair speculation, but that's not research.

Any reason he's not trying to fix his phobia by conventional means?

Comment author: Fluttershy 28 January 2016 09:18:24PM 0 points [-]

What I mean is that he'd be interested in working for MIRI, but not, say, OpenAI, or even a startup where he'd be doing lots of deep learning, if he overcomes his phobia.

Comment author: Lumifer 28 January 2016 09:53:22PM 1 point [-]

It might be that his interest in FAI is tied to his phobia so if the phobia goes away, so may the interest...