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Comment author: Kawoomba 21 February 2013 08:38:23PM 0 points [-]

You're making the perfect the enemy of the good.

I'm fine with at least a thorough framework for Weak Friendliness. That's not gonna materialize out of nothing. There are no actual Turing Machines (infinite tapes required), yet it is a useful model and its study yields useful results for real world applications.

Studying Strong Friendliness is a useful activity in finding a heuristic for best-we-can-do friendliness, which is way better than nothing.