Eliezer: “The Singularity Institute has a human-resources problem and a PR problem. I’ve been taking haphazard potshots at this for 8 years and it hasn’t worked. So I’m taking the time to write out full explanations, and the basics, and will eventually produce a book, and teenagers will read the book, go on to read other books, and then be hired by SIAI 7 years later. That, I’m afraid, is how it has always worked around here.”
Interesting. And probably a good strategy. In my humble opinion, the most worthwhile things that have been written on the subject of Friendly AI have been written by Eliezer Yudkowsky. But who’s to say that Eliezer has all the answers? It takes a lot of wisdom to realize that your best strategy might be to convince a large number of others to work on a problem that might be too difficult for any one person—including yourself—to solve.
I can personally testify that Eliezer’s writing was instrumental in alerting me to the urgency and importance of working on friendly AI, and that is indeed what I plan to do.
Eliezer: “The Singularity Institute has a human-resources problem and a PR problem. I’ve been taking haphazard potshots at this for 8 years and it hasn’t worked. So I’m taking the time to write out full explanations, and the basics, and will eventually produce a book, and teenagers will read the book, go on to read other books, and then be hired by SIAI 7 years later. That, I’m afraid, is how it has always worked around here.”
Interesting. And probably a good strategy. In my humble opinion, the most worthwhile things that have been written on the subject of Friendly AI have been written by Eliezer Yudkowsky. But who’s to say that Eliezer has all the answers? It takes a lot of wisdom to realize that your best strategy might be to convince a large number of others to work on a problem that might be too difficult for any one person—including yourself—to solve.
I can personally testify that Eliezer’s writing was instrumental in alerting me to the urgency and importance of working on friendly AI, and that is indeed what I plan to do.