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multifoliaterose comments on Video Q&A with Singularity Institute Executive Director - Less Wrong Discussion

42 Post author: lukeprog 10 December 2011 11:27AM

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Comment author: multifoliaterose 10 December 2011 01:42:05PM 8 points [-]

The company could generate profit to help fund SingInst and give evidence that the rationality techniques that Vassar, etc. use work in a context with real world feedback. This in turn could give evidence of them being useful in the context of x-risk reduction where empirical feedback is not available.

Comment author: curiousepic 14 December 2011 04:04:21PM 2 points [-]

Does anyone know if this is the intention?