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Comment author: wedrifid 06 March 2011 09:15:08PM 2 points [-]

and since SIAI (to the best of my knowledge) isn't doing anything illegal that's not particularly worrisome anyway.

Unless they are taken seriously, in which case there is most likely a law there somewhere that they could be said to be violating. They are, after all, trying to create a weapon of mass destruction. :)

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 07 March 2011 05:36:44AM 2 points [-]

Well building an AI to take over the world would arguably qualify as plotting violent overthrow of the government.