You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

faul_sname comments on Wasted life - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 24 May 2012 10:21AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (39)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: faul_sname 25 May 2012 07:57:50AM 0 points [-]

No, the easiest way to make your work irrelevant would be an event that set humanity back to a preindustrial level of technology. The easiest good event is a safe AI without safety precautions.

Comment author: gjm 25 May 2012 11:39:53AM 3 points [-]

What Stuart described would be evidence that his work was irrelevant. What you described would be a way of making his work irrelevant. The two are not at all the same.

Comment author: faul_sname 25 May 2012 09:19:08PM 1 point [-]

Indeed. I appear to have misread.