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Prismattic comments on Intelligence Explosion analysis draft: Why designing digital intelligence gets easier over time - Less Wrong

1 Post author: lukeprog 22 November 2011 10:28PM

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Comment author: Prismattic 24 November 2011 12:12:00AM 4 points [-]

If people get bored of arguing about torture v. specks, for variety one could substitute the hypothetical of creating a human whose superintelligence would benefit the rest of the species in a way similar to an FAI, but at a cost of an existence that was extraordinarily miserable in some way on a personal level.