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Open Thread April 16 - April 22, 2014 — LessWrong

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Open Thread April 16 - April 22, 2014

16th Apr 2014

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Oscar_Cunningham12y00

Note that Friendly AI (if it works) will defeat all (or at least a lot of) x-risk. So AI has a good claim to being the most effective at reducing x-risks, even the ones that aren't AI risk. If you anticipate an intelligence explosion but aren't worried about UFAI then your favourite charity is probably some non-MIRI AI research lab (Google?).

ChristianKl12y30

As far as I remember from LW census data the median date for predicted AGI intelligence explosion didn't fall in this century and more people considered bioengineered pandemics the most probably X-risk in this century than UFAI.

16Lumifer12y

You're ignoring time. If you expect a sufficiently powerful FAI to arise, say, not earlier than a hundred years from now, and you think that the coming century has significant x-risks, focusing all the resources on the FAI might not be a good idea. Not to mention that if your P(AI) isn't close to one, you probably want to be prepared for the situation in which an AI never materializes.