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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 21 May 2015 11:21:34PM *  0 points [-]

Sure. And insofar as it's easy for us, we should do our best to avoid being classified as crackpots of the first type :)

Avoiding classification as crackpots of the second type seems harder. The main thing seems to be having lots of high status, respectable people agree with the things you say. Nick Bostrom (Oxford professor) and Elon Musk (billionaire tech entrepreneur) seem to have done more for the credibility of AI risk than any object-level argument could, for instance.