drethelin comments on Open thread, Jul. 18 - Jul. 24, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 22 July 2016 03:54:22PM 2 points [-]

Anyone else worried about Peter Thiel's support for Donald Trump discrediting Thiel in a lot of people's eyes, and MIRI and AI safety/risk research in general by association?

Comment author: drethelin 23 July 2016 08:19:25PM 3 points [-]

I think it's more likely to go the other way. There are FAR more people who pay attention to Trump and normal republican politics than are currently paying attention to Thiel and AI risk. A small fraction of these being interested in Thiel and looking into AI risk is probably going to outweigh any losses.