Thinking that FAI is extremely difficult or unlikely isn’t obviously crazy, but Stross isn’t just saying “don’t bother trying FAI” but rather “don’t bother trying anything with the aim of making a good Singularity more likely”. The first sentence of his answer, which I neglected to quote, is “Forget it.”
Thinking that FAI is extremely difficult or unlikely isn’t obviously crazy, but Stross isn’t just saying “don’t bother trying FAI” but rather “don’t bother trying anything with the aim of making a good Singularity more likely”. The first sentence of his answer, which I neglected to quote, is “Forget it.”