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I believe that the SIAI has has been very successful in using OB/LW to not only rise awareness of risks from AI but to lend credence to the idea. From the very beginning I admired that feat.
Eliezer Yudkowsky's homepage is a perfect example of its type. Just imagine he would have concentrated solely on spreading the idea of risks from AI and the necessity of a friendliness theory. Without any background relating to business or an academic degree, to many people he would appear to be yet another crackpot spreading prophecies of doom. But someone who is apparently well-versed in probability theory, who studied cognitive biases and tries to refine the art of rationality? Someone like that can't possible be deluded enough to hold some complex beliefs that are completely unfounded, there must be more to it.
That's probably the biggest public relations stunt in the history of marketing extraordinary ideas.
Certainly, by many metrics LW can be considered wildly successful, and my comment wasn't meant to be a criticism of Eliezer or SIAI. But if SIAI was intending to build an FAI using its own team of FAI researchers, then at least so far LW has failed to recruit them any such researchers. I'm trying to figure out if this was the expected outcome, and if not, how updating on it has changed SIAI's plans. (Or to remind them to update in case they forgot to do so.)