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

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 30 September 2008 09:15:01PM 5 points [-]

AGI researchers take very seriously the prospect of someone else solving the problem first. They can imagine seeing the headlines in the paper saying that their own work has been upstaged. They know that Nature is allowed to do that to them.

For a moment, I read this as referring to Nature the Journal. "They are afraid of others solving the problem first, and they know that Nature is allowed to publish those results."