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.

jsteinhardt comments on Thinking soberly about the context and consequences of Friendly AI - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 16 October 2012 04:33AM

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.

Comment author: jsteinhardt 17 October 2012 02:27:05AM 3 points [-]

Nice post. A more general version of this assertion:

"If you are trying to convince someone to do X, use the most robust correct argument in favor of X, which is almost certainly not the one that makes the strongest assertions."