David Dalrymple criticized FAI and is working directly on mind uploading today, so apparently he disagrees with both you and Nick Szabo.
Nick Szabo explicitly suggested working on computer security so he seems to disagree with you about the utility. I disagree with you and him about whether provably unhackable software is feasible.
Do you think I've satisfied your request for examples of substantive disagreements? (I'd rather not go into object-level arguments since that's not what this post is about.)
What I mean, is that I think most of the critics would agree that the approaches which they see as far fetched (and which you say they 'disagree' about) are still much more realizable than FAI.
Furthermore, the arguments are highly conditional on specific speculations which are taken to be true for sake of the argument. For example, if I am to assume that unfriendly AI would destroy the world, but such can be prevented with FAI, it means that the AI that is of the kind that is actually designed and can be controlled can be done in time. The algorithms rele...
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