What's with the ems?
We can make more soild predictions about ems than we can about strong AI since there are less black swans regarding ems to mess up our calculations.
Does anthropics come into it?
No.
Why the huge focus on fully paternalistic Friendly AI rather than Obedient AI? It seems like a much lower-risk project.
the need for Friendliness in Obedient AI.
r/Fitness does a weekly "Moronic Monday", a judgment-free thread where people can ask questions that they would ordinarily feel embarrassed for not knowing the answer to. I thought this seemed like a useful thing to have here - after all, the concepts discussed on LessWrong are probably at least a little harder to grasp than those of weightlifting. Plus, I have a few stupid questions of my own, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that other people might as well.