army1987 comments on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 May 2012 12:04:06PM 1 point [-]

<wildspeculation> Hmmm. Yeah, cancer. The analogy would be "sufficiently advanced tools tend to be a short edit distance away from agents", which would mean that a typo in the source code or a cosmic ray striking a CPU at the wrong place and time could have pretty bad consequences. </wildspeculation>