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6 Post author: lukeprog 02 June 2012 09:07PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 03 June 2012 12:54:06AM 5 points [-]

Nice!

That list doesn't actually seem very intimidating; for some reason I expected more highly technical AI papers and books. Why do you guys feel you need elite math talent as opposed to typical math grad student level talent? Which problems, if any, related to FAI seem unusually difficult compared to typical math research problems?

Comment author: lukeprog 03 June 2012 12:59:18AM 4 points [-]

Now we've come to the point where I'd like to be able to hand you Open Problems in Friendly AI, but I can't.