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Kaj_Sotala comments on Cynical explanations of FAI critics (including myself) - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: Wei_Dai 13 August 2012 09:19PM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 14 August 2012 08:15:04AM 7 points [-]

I don't think it would be reasonable to develop such a roadmap at this point, given that it would require having a relatively high certainty in a specific plan. But given that it's not yet clear whether the best idea is to proceed on being the first one to develop FAI, or to pursue one of the proposals listed in the OP, or to do something else entirely, and furthermore it's not even clear how long it will take to figure that out, such specific roadmaps seem impossible.

Comment author: shminux 14 August 2012 03:09:22PM 2 points [-]

And this vagueness pattern-matched perfectly to various failed undertakings, hence my skepticism.

Comment author: DaFranker 16 August 2012 03:26:45PM 2 points [-]

In my model, it also pattern-matches with "Fundamental research that eventually gave us Motion, Thermodynamics, Relativity, Transistors, etc."