On 18/01/2015 18:50, Ben Goertzel via AGI wrote:
I agree that SIAI/MIRI, FHI and others are playing on peoples' fears to get their donation money. However, I also think that the SIAI/MIRI and FHI principals genuinely share these fears....
Sure: I don't think those folk are insinscere. One of my models of the situation is that the most paranoid are those most likely to start organisations aiming to combat the percieved threat. The extreme views of the founders are then explicable in terms of a self-selection effect. I see a parallel with the survalist movement. There, 'preppers' defend against the coming apocalypse - by stockpiling food, arms and other essentials. On average the more extreme survalists are likely to lose their bets and waste their resources. However there are still some worlds in which we are all descended from extreme survalists. It actually helps to safeguard civilization to have a few extreme survalists out there - even though most people would not rush to join them, and their risk assessments often appear to be paranoid. -- __________ |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ [email protected] Remove lock to reply. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
