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TheOtherDave 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: TheOtherDave 20 January 2012 06:09:30PM 0 points [-]

OK, cool.

Do you also still maintain that if he thought it wasn't a hard problem for people with the right qualifications, he wouldn't be comfortable dismissing particular instances of AI researchers as mostly harmless?

Comment author: wedrifid 21 January 2012 02:00:49AM 2 points [-]

Do you also still maintain that if he thought it wasn't a hard problem for people with the right qualifications, he wouldn't be comfortable dismissing particular instances of AI researchers as mostly harmless?

Yes. And again if Eliezer did consider the problem easy with qualifications but still dismissed the aforementioned folks as mostly harmless it would constitute dramatically enhanced boastful arrogance!

Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 January 2012 03:22:56AM 3 points [-]

OK, that's clear. I don't know if I'll bother to do the research to confirm one way or the other, but in either case your confidence that I'm misremembering has reduced my confidence in my recollection.