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Comment author: Username 02 July 2013 07:19:10PM *  19 points [-]

You can also turn that around.

To succeed is human; to really make a difference requires a computer.

Suffice to say that AGI is a really big lever.

Comment author: cody-bryce 03 July 2013 02:50:10AM 3 points [-]

There's a saying about India, "Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true."

Comment author: ygert 03 July 2013 09:42:13AM 21 points [-]

"Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is false."

Comment author: DanArmak 03 July 2013 10:01:19PM 4 points [-]

No, no, no. "There exists a statement you can rightly say about India, whose opposite is false."

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 July 2013 09:52:55PM 3 points [-]

It works!

Comment author: itaibn0 06 July 2013 08:34:33PM -2 points [-]

To extend on ygert's comment, if the opposite of a statement about India is true, that make it less right to say. Note that this also applies for ambiguous statements with no clear truth-value and for statements whose opposites are not their negation.