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FAWS comments on The Singularity Institute's Arrogance Problem - Less Wrong Discussion

63 Post author: lukeprog 18 January 2012 10:30PM

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 19 January 2012 12:32:05AM 22 points [-]

Thought experiment

If the SIAI was a group of self interested/self deceiving individuals, similar to new age groups, who had made up all this stuff about rationality and FAI as a cover for fundraising what different observations would we expect?

Comment author: FAWS 19 January 2012 12:49:42AM 12 points [-]

I wouldn't have expected them to hire Luke. If Luke was a member all along and everything just planned to make them look more convincing that would imply a level of competence at such things that I'd expect all round better execution (which would have helped more than slightly improved believability from faking lower level of PR etc competence).