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.

ChristianKl comments on Community bias in threat evaluation - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: pianoforte611 17 January 2014 04:01AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Article Navigation

Comments (26)

Comments (26)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: ChristianKl 18 January 2014 12:44:22AM *  4 points [-]

I deliberately didn't say that the majority of LessWrongers would give that answer. Partly because Lesswrong is only about 1/3 computer scientists/programmers.

Fortunately we have the census and the census does ask for the profession. Among those with the profession Computers (AI), Computers (practical: IT, programming, etc.) and Computers (other academic, computer science) 14.4% think that unfriendly AI is the biggest threat.

Lesswrong isn't a community that focuses much on bioengineered pandemics. Yet among those computer programmers 23.7% still think it's the greatest threat.

We are a community that actually cares about data.

Powered by Reddit Powered by Reddit