From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 12:48:05 MDT
Natasha Vita-More wrote:
>
> I'm not sure of the focus, though. Is the Singularity Institute's
> direction attempting to produce research about the oncoming Singularity and
> develop of ways to deal with the massive growth of machine intelligence, or
> exercise a belief system?
Neither. We're here to build the superintelligence.
The alleged object of reasonable debate and rational analysis is to choose a
course of action, not to impress the world with how uncertain you're
pretending to be. We have refined our analysis to the point where this course
of action is known to be significantly more promising than any other course of
action available. And time is valuable.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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