My Straussian reading of Tyler Cowen is that a "serious" MIRI would be assembling and training a team of hacker-assassins to go after potential UFAIs instead of dinking around with decision theory.
If you ideas of being serious is to train a team of hacker-assassins that might indicate that your project is doomed from the start.
parts of the US government that trained people to infiltrate the post-collapse Soviet Union and then locate and neutralize nuclear weapons."
As far as I know there are still nuclear weapons in the post-collapse Soviet Union.
As far as I know there are still nuclear weapons in the post-collapse Soviet Union.
Pretty clear that he meant the "loose nukes" that went unaccounted for in the administrative chaos after Soviet Collapse.
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