There is careful futurism, where you try to consider all the biases you know, and separate your analysis into logical parts, and put confidence intervals around things, and use wider confidence intervals where you have less constraining knowledge, and all that other stuff rationalists do.
I would love to see someone do that to the AGI and (U)FAI predictions.
Today's post, A Premature Word on AI was originally published on 31 May 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
A response to opinions expressed by Robin Hanson, Roger Schank, and others, and arguing against the notion that producing a friendly general artificial intelligence is an insurmountable problem.
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