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Software companies manage to ship products that do sort of what they want, that they can patch to more closely do what they want. This is generally after rounds of internal testing, in which they try to figure out if it does what they want by running it and observing the result.
But an AGI, whether FAI or uFAI, will be the last program that humans get to write and execute unsupervised. We will not get to issue patches.
Or to put it another way, the revolution will not be beta tested.
That is one of the most chilling phrases I've ever heard. Disarming in its simplicity, yet downright Lovecraftian in its implications. And it would probably make a nice bumper sticker.
Revolutions never get beta tested.