Rain comments on Holden Karnofsky's Singularity Institute Objection 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Rain 11 May 2012 12:41:55PM *  8 points [-]

Agency has strong incentives due to real world advantages such as speed and capability. Automatic cars, high frequency trading algorithms, airplane autopilots, guided missiles, security systems, assisted living robots and personal enhancements like pacemakers... computers are better than humans at a sufficiently broad set of abilities that we will entrust more and more to them in the form of agency as time goes on. Tools won't remain mere tools for long.

Comment author: Curiouskid 01 September 2015 08:01:21PM 0 points [-]

Tools can be used to build agents.