chaosmage comments on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 May 2012 12:06:50AM 29 points [-]

Any sufficiently advanced tool is indistinguishable from agent.

I shall quickly remark that I, myself, do not believe this to be true.

Comment author: chaosmage 14 May 2012 10:58:36AM 4 points [-]

How about this: An agent with a very powerful tool is indistinguishable from a very powerful agent.

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