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Comment author: timtyler 09 March 2011 12:10:55PM *  5 points [-]

First one has to identify characteristics that could potentially be used to cast a damaging light on this community. Here the most obvious possibility seems to be to portray the SIAI, together with LessWrong, as a cult.

Probably the other main possibilities that spring to my mind are:

  • That it is a luddite organisation;

  • That it is an unscrupulous machine intelligence outfit masquerading as a luddite organisation for marketing reasons;

  • That it has fallen too far behind to have much chance of meeting its goals;

  • That it is too perfectionist to have much chance of meeting its goals;

  • That its lack of experience and secretive culture are a bad combination.

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