Reasons SIAI (and research generally) is not optimal?

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Re: Reasons SIAI (and research generally) is not optimal?

Postby Jesper Östman on Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:07 am

If you see some significant probability of you stopping to care about simulated insects, would you also see a significant possibility of you stopping to care about any simulations?
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Re: Reasons SIAI (and research generally) is not optimal?

Postby Alan Dawrst on Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:41 am

Jesper Östman wrote:If you see some significant probability of you stopping to care about simulated insects, would you also see a significant possibility of you stopping to care about any simulations?

Yes, I'd assign maybe 25% probability to that. It's all a matter of how far I want to use abstraction to stretch my evolved impulses.
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