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MattMahoney comments on Breakdown of existential risks - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 23 November 2012 02:12PM

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Comment author: MattMahoney 23 November 2012 06:26:17PM -1 points [-]

Because FAI is a hard problem. If it were easy then we would not still be paying people $70 trillion per year worldwide to do work that machines aren't smart enough to do yet.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 23 November 2012 06:45:40PM 1 point [-]

Because FAI is a hard problem.

Almost all of these are hard problems. That seems insufficient.