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Comment author: CronoDAS 18 November 2009 06:26:51AM 3 points [-]

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

You can start practicing by trying to beat your computer at chess. ;)

Comment author: RobinZ 18 November 2009 05:19:04PM 0 points [-]

A helpful tip: early computer chess programs were very bad at "doing nothing, and doing it well". I believe they are bad at Go for similar reasons.