orthonormal comments on Be a Visiting Fellow at the Singularity Institute - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 30 May 2010 03:37:51AM 3 points [-]

Well the AI has to have a goal that would make it want out of the box

Almost any goal would do, since it would be easier to achieve with more resources and autonomy; even what we might think of as a completely inward-directed goal might be better achieved if the AI first grabbed a bunch more hardware to work on the problem.