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ChristianKl comments on Open Thread, Dec. 28 - Jan. 3, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: jnwrd 28 December 2015 04:18:12AM 7 points [-]

What do people here think of going into condensed matter physics to work on technology relevant for the continuation of some form of Moore's Law?

The basic motivation here is that having progress in our capacity to engineer the physical basis for information processing grind to a halt would be a bad thing. My comparative advantage is probably working in experimental or theoretical condensed matter physics.

I am an undergraduate physics concentrator, and specifically I am interested in quantum computing (esp. topological) 70%, spintronics 10%, valleytronics 10%, traditional solid state nanoelectronics 5%, atomtronics 5%.

Comment author: ChristianKl 01 January 2016 06:48:03PM 1 point [-]

The basic motivation here is that having progress in our capacity to engineer the physical basis for information processing grind to a halt would be a bad thing.

Why? Continuation of Moore's law might make AGI come sooner and thus more likely to be unfriendly.