Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on "Stupid" questions thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 July 2013 11:18:49PM 6 points [-]

Anything smarter-than-human should be regarded as containing unimaginably huge forces held in check only by the balanced internal structure of those forces, since there is nothing which could resist them if unleashed. The degree of 'obedience' makes very little difference to this fact, which must be dealt with before you can go on to anything else.