Daniel_Burfoot comments on Beyond the Reach of God - Less Wrong

66 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 October 2008 03:42PM

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 05 October 2008 05:08:00AM 3 points [-]

@Hidden: just a "typical" OB reader, for example. I imagine there are lots of readers who read posts like this and say to themselves "Yeah! There's no God! If we want to be saved, we have to save ourselves! But... how...?" Then they wake up the next day and go to their boring corporate programming jobs.

@pdf23ds: This feels like tunnel vision. Surely the problem SIAI is working on isn't the ONLY problem worth solving.

@Eliezer: I recognize that it's hard to use volunteers. But members of Team Rational are not herd thinkers. They probably don't need to be led, per se - just kind of nudged in the right direction. For example, if you said, "I really think project X is important to the future of humanity, but it's outside the scope of SIAI and I don't have time to dedicate to it", probably some people would self-motivate to go and pursue project X.