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26 Post author: jacob_cannell 05 February 2011 10:05AM

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Comment author: jacob_cannell 07 February 2011 06:34:40AM 0 points [-]

They will have some conception of what comes afterwards, some philosophy of the future which informs their technical effort. Probably the philosophy will be some variation of "someone has to win the race to achieve superintelligence, and it's going to be us, and good times will follow our victory".

Yes of course. That philosophy itself is much of what this site is all about.