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Well, SIAI isn't necessarily a homogenous bunch of people, with respect to what they oppose or endorse, but did you look for instance at Michael Anissimov's entries on MNT? (Focusing on that because it's the topic of Risto's comment and you seem to see that as a confirmation of your thesis.) You don't get the impression that he thinks it's a bad idea, quite the contrary: http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/category/nanotechnology/
Here is Eliezer on the SL4 mailing list:
The Luddites of our times are (for instance) groups like the publishing and music industries, the use of that label to describe the opinions of people affiliated with SIAI just doesn't make sense IMO.
Human-implemented molecular nanotechnology is a bad idea. I just talk about it to attract people in who think it's important. MNT knowledge is a good filter/generator for SL3 and beyond thinkers.
MNT without friendly superintelligence would be nothing but a disaster.
It's true that SIAI isn't homogeneous though. For instance, Anna is much more optimistic about uploads than I am personally.
Thanks for the link, yes, that does seem to be a different opinion (and some very interesting posts).
I agree with you about the publishing and music industries. I consider current rampant abuse of intellectual property law to be a bigger threat than the Singularity meme, sufficiently so that if your comparative advantage is in politics, opposing that abuse probably has the highest expected utility of anything you could be doing.