I agree, and it seems to me that SIAI is putting a lot of effort into making that discussion happen. That's what the Singularity Summits are for, for example, and Less Wrong is kinda also working for that.
Needing to have lots of discussion however doesn't mean that all code should be open-source. Very few if any of the things that currently need to be discussed are such that the code level is where they should be articulated.
Or would you like to point to specific individuals who are very willing and able to contribute to Singularity discussion, but whose ability to do so is significantly handicapped because of lack of access to code that SIAI may or may not have?
(My impression is that there isn't much yet done on the code level anyway, since the big problems still are on a higher level of abstraction.)
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Re: obviousness of possible failure modes
Date: 2010-05-18 04:54 pm (UTC)Needing to have lots of discussion however doesn't mean that all code should be open-source. Very few if any of the things that currently need to be discussed are such that the code level is where they should be articulated.
Or would you like to point to specific individuals who are very willing and able to contribute to Singularity discussion, but whose ability to do so is significantly handicapped because of lack of access to code that SIAI may or may not have?
(My impression is that there isn't much yet done on the code level anyway, since the big problems still are on a higher level of abstraction.)