whpearson comments on Steelmanning MIRI critics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Benito 20 August 2014 02:45:23PM 1 point [-]

For a great-if-imprecise response to #4, you can just read aloud the single page story at the beginning of Bostrom's book 'Superintelligence'. For a more precise response, you can make explicit the analogy.

Comment author: whpearson 23 August 2014 01:27:43PM 1 point [-]

And if they come back with an snake egg instead? Surely we need to have some idea of the nature of AI and it thus how exactly it is dangerous.