Those points were excellent, and it is no credit to LW that the comment was on negative karma when I encountered it.
No, the approach based on proveable correctness isn't a 100% guarantee, and, since it involves an unupdateable UF, and has the additional disadvantage that if you don't get the UF right first time, you can't tweak it.
The alternative family of approaches, based on flexibility, training and acculturation have often been put forward by MIRIs critics....and MIRI has never been quantiified why the one approach is better than the other.
I'm giving a talk to the Boulder Future Salon in Boulder, Colorado in a few weeks on the Intelligence Explosion hypothesis. I've given it once before in Korea but I think the crowd I'm addressing will be more savvy than the last one (many of them have met Eliezer personally). It could end up being important, so I was wondering if anyone considers themselves especially capable of playing Devil's Advocate so I could shape up a bit before my talk? I'd like there to be no real surprises.
I'd be up for just messaging back and forth or skyping, whatever is convenient.