Why don mainstream researchers consider Friendliness an issue?
A20). Mainstream researchers, in most fields don’t have a very good record of carefully thinking out the implications of future technologies. Even during the Manhattan Project, few of the scientists took the time to think about- in detail- the havoc the bomb would wreak twenty years down the road. FAIs are much more difficult to understand than atomic bombs, and so if anything, the problem will be worse.
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