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Giles comments on What does the world look like, the day before FAI efforts succeed? - Less Wrong Discussion

23 Post author: michaelcurzi 16 November 2012 08:56PM

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Comment author: Giles 17 November 2012 07:32:18PM *  5 points [-]

I like how you've partitioned things up into IA/government/status/memes/prediction/xrisk/security and given excellent/good/ok options for each. This helps imagine mix-and-match scenarios, e.g. "FAI team has got good at security but sucks at memes and status".

A few quick points:

The fantastic list has 8 points and the others have 7 (as there are two "government" points). This brings me on to...

Should there be a category for "funding"? The fantastic/good/ok options could be something like:

  • Significant government funding and/or FAI team use their superior rationality to acquire very large amounts of money through business
  • Attracts small share of government/philanthropy budgets and/or a lot of small donations from many individuals
  • Shoestring budget, succeeds anyway because the problem turns out to not be so hard after all once you've acquired the right insights

Does it have to be the FAI team implementing the "other xrisk reduction efforts" or can it just be "such institutions exist"?

Comment author: michaelcurzi 17 November 2012 11:59:20PM 3 points [-]

I'll add this, and the one from your other comment. (By the way, thank you for being the only person so far to actually answer the goddamn prompt!)

Comment author: Giles 18 November 2012 02:39:26AM 2 points [-]

the only person so far to actually answer the goddamn prompt

What's worse is I wasn't even consciously aware that I was doing that. I'll try and read posts more carefully in the future!

Comment author: ciphergoth 18 November 2012 05:59:27PM 1 point [-]

Answering the goddamn prompt is haaaard! I don't know if there's a relationship between the presence of non-answer comments and the absence of answer comments.

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