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Will_Newsome comments on Q&A with Shane Legg on risks from AI - Less Wrong Discussion

42 Post author: XiXiDu 17 June 2011 08:58AM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 25 June 2011 08:40:50AM 0 points [-]

I think it's epistemicly dangerous to guess at the motivations of "them" when there are so few people and all of them have diverse views. There are only a handful of Research Fellows and it's not like they have blogs where they talk about these things. SingInst is still really small and really diverse.

Comment author: timtyler 25 June 2011 11:42:27AM 0 points [-]

There are only a handful of Research Fellows and it's not like they have blogs where they talk about these things.

Right - so, to be specific, we have things like this:

Any Future not shaped by a goal system with detailed reliable inheritance from human morals and metamorals, will contain almost nothing of worth.

I think I have to agree with the Europan Zugs in disagreeing with that.