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38 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 22 March 2011 12:06PM

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Comment author: hairyfigment 22 March 2011 07:26:04PM 3 points [-]

I'll have to think about the subjective method part. In the meantime:

The mission, as I recall, was to design and code a Friendly artificial intelligence.

That'd be nice, sure. It technically seems less likely than the SIAI producing a detailed theory of Friendliness. So someone at some point may need to convince a lot of people to think about the issue in a certain (rational) way.