Woodbun comments on Rationality Quotes June 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Woodbun 05 June 2013 05:27:29AM * 18 points [-]

...the machines will do what we ask them to do and not what we ought to ask them to do. In the discussion of the relation between man and powerful agencies controlled by man, the gnomic wisdom of the folk tales has a value far beyond the books of our sociologists.