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 == Anti-SIAI Singularitarians == 
 You asked on my talk page for examples of Singularitarians who have opposed the Singularity Institute. There's a hanful on the SL4 mailing list. The most noticeable is Marc Geddes, who claims to have started his own competing AI project to initiate the Singularity, but he's more known for being completely insane than anything else. Russel Wallace wrote a proposal for an alternative to Yudkowsky's Friendliness model called Domain Protection. Over the next couple of months, he became increasingly critical and wrote that implementing Collective Volition ""would be arguably worse than just blowing up the planet"" . In another post: ""If CV is ever on the point of being implemented, I strongly recommend having fast, thorough means of suicide ready to hand [...]"" . I'm sure there are others, with varying degrees of opposition. Last I've heard, Ben Goertzel is making his own Seed AI and doesn't think Friendliness is as important as SIAI claims, but doesn't have any opposition to SIAI's success I'm aware of. I'm sure you could find more examples by looking through the SL4 archives. And sorry in advance if I've misrepresented Wallace's or Goertzel's views here, as they may have changed recently.   "