Michael Anissimov writes that achieving Friendly AI is a serious proposition -- so serious, in fact, that we might ought to go ahead and pay somebody to do it.

It's really not that radical a proposition. You want a radical proposition? How about this, written by the "someone" whom Michael has in mind to hire to solve the friendly AI problem (as quoted elsewhere on Accelerating Future):

There is no evil I have to accept because “there’s nothing I can do about it”. There is no abused child, no oppressed peasant, no starving beggar, no crack-addicted infant, no cancer patient, literally no one that I cannot look squarely in the eye. I’m working to save everybody, heal the planet, solve all the problems of the world.

If it was anybody else saying it, it would sound kind of, well, crazy.