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lmm 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: lmm 15 September 2014 09:16:54PM 25 points [-]

[Please read the OP before voting. Special voting rules apply.]

The dangers of UFAI are minimal.

Comment author: DanielLC 15 September 2014 11:16:43PM 5 points [-]

Do you think that it is unlikely for a UFAI to be created, that if a UFAI is created it will not be dangerous, or both?

Comment author: lmm 16 September 2014 12:11:35PM 2 points [-]

I think humans will become sufficiently powerful that UFAI does not represent a threat to them before creating UFAI.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 September 2014 04:27:33PM 2 points [-]

“Dangers” being defined as probability times disutility, right?

Comment author: lmm 17 September 2014 11:27:23PM 4 points [-]

With the caveat that I'm treating unbounded negative utility as invalid, sure.

Comment author: [deleted] 15 September 2014 09:50:28PM 1 point [-]

Please do elaborate!