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Crux comments on Will AGI surprise the world? - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: lukeprog 21 June 2014 10:27PM

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Comment author: Crux 24 June 2014 04:07:31PM *  -1 points [-]

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Comment author: [deleted] 24 June 2014 04:33:19PM 0 points [-]

Read the OP, I didn't make any boisterous claims. I simply said UFAI is 2-5 years away, focused effort, and 10-20 years away otherwise. I therefore believe it important that FAI research be refocused on near-term solutions. I state so publicly in order to counter the entrenched meme that seems to have infected everyone here, saying that AI is X years away, where X is some arbitrary number that by golly seems like a lot, in the hope that some people who encounter the post consider refocusing on near-term work. What's wrong with that?

Comment author: Crux 24 June 2014 04:38:09PM 0 points [-]

Disregard my reply. I really shouldn't be posting from my phone at 2 AM. Such a venture rarely ends well.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 June 2014 04:58:59PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, I've been there before. No worries ;)