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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 November 2009 03:24:28AM 5 points [-]

By "deal with" I'm including prevailing over superintelligences, without throwing up hands and saying "it's smarter than me".

throws up hands

Not every challenge is winnable, you know.

Comment author: JamesAndrix 18 November 2009 10:11:43AM 0 points [-]

Impossible?

Are you saying a human can't beat a group mind or are you and Johnicholas using different meanings of superintelligence?

Also, what if we're in a FAI without a nonperson predicate?