soreff comments on Reference class of the unclassreferenceable - Less Wrong

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Comment author: soreff 12 January 2010 04:49:46PM 0 points [-]

Good point - I'd thought that physical constraints would make disassembling the Earth take a large fraction of that time, but solar output is sufficient to do the job in roughly a million seconds, so yes, an unFriendly superintelligence could do it within the 20 year time frame.