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Dagon comments on Earning money with/for work in AI safety - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: rmoehn 18 July 2016 05:37AM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 19 July 2016 03:44:09PM -1 points [-]

Perhaps you'd do a lot more good with a slight reduction in shipping costs or tiny improvements in safety or enjoyment of some consumer product.

Perhaps you would also do more good by working in a slight increase in shipping costs.

Comment author: Dagon 19 July 2016 09:50:21PM 0 points [-]

Quite. Whatever you consider an improvement to be. Just don't completely discount small, likely improvements in favor of large (existential) unlikely ones.