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Will_Newsome comments on Rational Terrorism or Why shouldn't we burn down tobacco fields? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 03 October 2010 07:27:17AM 0 points [-]

Eliezer's attitude that (for now) AGI is unlikely to be developed by anyone not competent enough to realize Friendliness is a problem

Huh. I didn't get that from the sequences, perhaps I should check again. It always seemed to me as if he saw AGI as really frickin' hard but not excessively so, whereas Friendliness is the Impossible Problem made up of smaller but also impossible problems.

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