buybuydandavis comments on Intelligence explosion in organizations, or why I'm not worried about the singularity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 27 December 2012 08:39:23PM 0 points [-]

It pretended to be an agent with goals like protecting the people from Eastasia and Eurasia.

Those pretenses were means to the end of the Coercive State Power Maximizer.

And I don't see how you distinguish Smith from Orwell in terms of intelligence or agency. If anything, I see more agency in Ingsoc than a market.