[Link] John Baez interviews Eliezer

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If you want to offer a concrete proposal for verifying the trustworthiness of nine people in a basement, offer it.

Pay independent experts to peer-review your work.
Make the finances of the SIAI easily accessible.
Openly explain why and for what you currently need more money.
Publish progress reports for people to assess how close you are to run a fooming AI.
Publish a roadmap, set certain goals and openly pronounce success or failure.
Devise a plan that allows the examination by independent experts of a possible seed AI before you run it.

I came up with the above in about 1 minute. You shouldn't even have to ask me how one could verify the trustworthiness of a charity. There are many more obvious ways to approach that problem.

Openly explain why and for what you currently need more money.

I'm especially interested in this. I'm open to the idea that SIAI is the maximally useful charity, but since I don't know why they need the money I'm currently giving it to Village Reach.

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Those sound like good ideas (except the first one), but they aren't ideas for allaying your fears that SIAI will make an evil AI (except the last one). They are ideas for allaying your fears that SIAI won't put your donation to good use. (Except the last one.)

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