Lumifer comments on [link] [poll] Future Progress in Artificial Intelligence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 10 July 2014 05:38:55PM 3 points [-]

Within moments?

Well, what's going to slow it down? If you have a backdoor or an exploit, to take over a computer requires a few milliseconds for communications latency and a few milliseconds to run the code to execute the takeover. At this point the new zombie becomes a vector for further infection, you have exponential growth and BOOM!