TheAncientGeek comments on AI risk, new executive summary - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 21 April 2014 09:59:54AM 1 point [-]

I've seen plenty of high-IQ folks actively resisting that particular click. I think it has more to do with something like your degree of cynicism rather than your IQ: if you like to think of most people as inherently good, and want to think of people as inherently good, then you may also want to resist the thought of AIs as being dangerous by default.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 21 April 2014 12:03:15PM *  1 point [-]

There's a significant difference between "might" and "by default"