Vladimir_Nesov comments on The Magnitude of His Own Folly - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 19 April 2012 07:56:56PM *  0 points [-]

The "know" being in italics and the following "(maybe not a very good one, but still)" are meant to stress that "maybe it'll work, dunno" is not an intended interpretation.

Comment author: thomblake 19 April 2012 08:23:06PM 0 points [-]

Edited quote.

It's an effective response to talk like "But why not work on a maybe-Friendly AI, it's better than nothing" that I don't usually see.

It's a generally useful insight, that even if we can employ a mathematical proof, we only have a "Proven Friendly AI with N% confidence" for some N, and so a well-considered 1% FAI is still a FAI, since the default is "?". Generally useful as in, that insight applies to practically everything else.