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True. I know the SIAI people pretty well (I'm kind of one of them) and can confirm they agree. But they're pretty heavily against uFAI development, which is what I thought XiXiDu's quote was talking about.
Well... hopefully not, in a sense. SIAI's working to improve widespread knowledge of the need for Friendliness among AGI researchers. It's inevitable (barring a global catastrophe), but they're hoping to make FAI more inevitable than uFAI.
As someone who was a volunteered for SIAI at the Singularity Summit, a critique of SIAI could be to ask why we're letting people who aren't concerned about uFAI speak at our conferences and affiliate with our memes. I think there are good answers to that critique, but the critique itself is a pretty reasonable one. Most complains about SIAI are comparatively maddeningly irrational (in my own estimation).
A stronger criticism, I think, is why the only mention of friendliness at the Summit was some very veiled hints in Eliezer's speech. Again, I think there are good reasons, but not good reasons that a lot of people know, so I don't understand why people bring up other criticisms before this one.