_ozymandias comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Costanza 29 December 2011 11:23PM

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 30 December 2011 05:03:45PM 8 points [-]

I disagree. AIs can be copied, which is a huge boost. You just need a single Stephen Hawking AI to come out of the population, then you make 1 million copies of it and dramatically speed up science.