FAWS comments on The Backup Plan - Less Wrong

1 Post author: Luke_A_Somers 13 October 2011 07:53PM

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Comment author: FAWS 13 October 2011 08:19:05PM 5 points [-]

The range of possible AIs with full internet access that can't take over the world at will, but can program a successor that human parties will sufficiently trust to be friendly to make a practical difference in favor of the AI seems very narrow, and might plausibly be an empty set.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 13 October 2011 10:40:00PM 2 points [-]

Ability to look things up doesn't imply full internet access. The AI could request material on the subject of AI development, and be given a large, static archive of relevant material.