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26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 September 2008 11:31AM

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Comment author: Shane_Legg 30 September 2008 03:04:01PM 1 point [-]

Eli, sometimes I find it hard to understand what your position actually is. It seems to me that your position is:

1) Work out an extremely robust solution to the Friendly AI problem

Only once this has been done do we move on to:

2) Build a powerful AGI

Practically, I think this strategy is risky. In my opinion, if you try to solve Friendliness without having a concrete AGI design, you will probably miss some important things. Secondly, I think that solving Friendliness will take longer than building the first powerful AGI. Thus, if you do 1 before getting into 2, I think it's unlikely that you'll be first.

Comment author: timtyler 11 January 2011 09:19:02PM *  1 point [-]

I say much the same thing on: The risks of caution.

The race doesn't usually go to the most cautious.