multifoliaterose comments on Extraterrestrial paperclip maximizers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: multifoliaterose 09 August 2010 09:23:46PM 1 point [-]

Thanks for your remark. I agree that what I said in my last comment is too strong.

I'm not convinced that the negative effects associated with sending signals into space are trivial, but Vladimir's remarks did meaningfully lower my level of confidence in the notion that a really powerful optimization process would go out of its way to attack Earth in response to receiving a signal from us.