wedrifid comments on Hedging our Bets: The Case for Pursuing Whole Brain Emulation to Safeguard Humanity's Future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 04 March 2010 12:33:47AM 0 points [-]

Stopping is one of the simplest possible desires - and you have a better chance of being able to program that in than practically anything else.

It does seem to be a safety precaution that could reduce the consequences of some possible flaws in an AI design.