XiXiDu comments on So You Want to Save the World - Less Wrong

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Comment author: XiXiDu 28 December 2011 03:51:23PM *  2 points [-]

1) Is true as long as long as there is no infallible outside intervention and recursively self-improving AI is possible in principle...

Stripped of all connotations this seems reasonable. I was pretty sure that he meant to include #2,3 in what he wrote and even if he didn't I thought it would be clear that I meant to ask about the SI definition rather than the most agreeable definition of self-improvement possible.