Vladimir_Nesov comments on The scourge of perverse-mindedness - Less Wrong

95 Post author: simplicio 21 March 2010 07:08AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 22 March 2010 01:38:08PM * 2 points [-]

To put it another way, as intelligence increases, we will increasingly modify our goals to what is possible.

A lot more is possible than what is currently present. You don't need to modify unreachable programming, it just doesn't run (until it does).