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29 Post author: AnnaSalamon 01 December 2009 01:42AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 03 December 2009 03:20:15AM 3 points [-]

. . . Java is slower then C++ because of all the overheads of running the code. . . .

A fast programming language is the last thing we need. Literally--when you're trying to create a Friendly AI, compiling it and optimizing it and stuff is probably the very last step.

(Yes, I did try to phrase the latter half of that in such a way to make the former half seem true, for the sake of rhetoric.)