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Rukifellth comments on How does real world expected utility maximization work? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Rukifellth 11 August 2013 11:21:02PM 0 points [-]

It took me 3 months to realize that I completely failed to inquire about your second friend. I must have seen him as having the lesser problem and dismissed it out of hand, without realizing that acknowledging the perceived ease of a problem isn't the same as actually solving it, like putting off easy homework.

How is your second friend turning out?

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 13 August 2013 08:22:28AM 0 points [-]

He isn't my friend, he's just some guy who decided to be a singularity cheerleader. But his website is still the same - super-AI is inherently good and can't come soon enough, scarcity is the cause of most problems and abundance is coming and will fix it, life in the pre-singularity world is tragic and boring and bearable only because the future will be infinitely better.