couldn't the money spent on cryopreserving oneself be better spend on, say, AI safety research?
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Couldn't the money spent on AI safety research be better spend on, say, AI research?
Couldn't the money spent on AI safety research be better spend on, say, AI research?
There's something like 100 times as much funding for AI research as there is for AI safety research. In general, it seems like it would be weird to have only 1% of the effort in a project spent on making sure the project is doing the thing that it should be doing.
For this specific question, I like Stuart Russell's approach:
...My proposal is that we should stop doing AI in its simple definition of just improving the decision-making capabilities of systems. […] With civil e
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