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XiXiDu comments on AI Risk & Opportunity: Questions We Want Answered - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: XiXiDu 02 April 2012 10:06:58AM *  1 point [-]

This might sound more provocative than intended. But some people might perceive answering some of those questions to be a prerequisite condition.

For example, 'What can we do to raise the "sanity waterline," and how much will this help?' If you don't know the answer to that question, how did you decide that it was useful to spend years on writing the sequences and that it is now worthwhile to create a 'Rationality Org' (see e.g. here)?