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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by arikr on Friday March 31, 2017 @06:28PM (#14008931)
It's about expected value. A 0.0001% chance of reducing an extreme risk will have a very high expected value.
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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by rspeer on Friday March 31, 2017 @07:27PM (#14009337)
You can justify lots of things with Pascal's wager, but most of them are religions.
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