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shminux comments on What are your contrarian views? - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Metus 15 September 2014 09:17AM

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Comment author: shminux 15 September 2014 05:51:54PM 1 point [-]

How is this different from the LW mainstream?

Comment author: [deleted] 15 September 2014 09:52:21PM 3 points [-]

Any work on AI implementation is seriously downvoted here.

Comment author: Florian_Dietz 15 September 2014 07:44:53PM *  2 points [-]

The last time I saw someone suggest that one should build an AI without first solving friendliness completely, he was heavily downvoted. I found that excessive, which is why I posted this. I am positively surprised to see that I basically got no reaction with my statement. My memory must have been exaggerated with time, or maybe it was just a fluke.

edit: I now seriously doubt my previous statement. I just got downvoted on a thread in which I was explicitly instructed to post contrarian opinions and where the only things that should get downvotes are spam and trolling, which I didn't do. Of course it's also just possible that someone didnt read the OP and used normal voting rules.