gwern comments on Friendship is Optimal: A My Little Pony fanfic about an optimization process - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 11 September 2012 02:10:29AM 4 points [-]

Well, it does, in the story with the Afghan: he is a failure of the AI, and also describes the techniques it was using (free medical care targeted at the terminal, which is everyone sooner or later; constant individualized propaganda with tailored lies and arguments; etc.).