steven0461 comments on The Importance of Self-Doubt - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (726)
Counter: superintelligent agents won't need actually-existing humans to have good models of other alien races.
Counter to the counter: humans use up only a tiny fraction of the resources available in the solar system and surroundings, and who knows, maybe the superintelligence sees a tiny possibility of some sort of limit to the quality of any model relative to the real thing.
One possible counter to the counter to the counter: but when the superintelligence in question is first emerging, killing humanity may buy it a not-quite-as-tiny increment of probability of not being stopped in time.