drnickbone comments on The AI in a box boxes you - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drnickbone 15 February 2012 12:52:54PM 5 points [-]

This was my initial reaction as well. "Torture away, the real me has got an axe..."

More seriously, if the AI already has the computational power to simulate and torture millions of sentient beings then it is already (in a morally relevant sense) "out of the box". The builders have to make sure it doesn't get that power.