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24 Post author: lukeprog 19 June 2012 04:42AM

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Comment author: drethelin 19 June 2012 04:20:22PM 9 points [-]

Despite the source and tone, these comments make sense to me. It looks suspicious when an organization tries to change its name to a more euphemistic version of its old one, and for most people AI refers to narrow AI and not singularity-causing AI.