Eniac comments on In order to greatly reduce X-risk, design self-replicating spacecraft without AGI - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eniac 07 December 2014 04:39:27AM 1 point [-]

Bacteria perform quite well at expanding into an environment, and they are not intelligent.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 December 2014 03:48:06AM 1 point [-]

I would argue they are, for some level of micro-intelligence, but that's entirely beside the point. A bacteria doesn't know how to create tools or self-modify or purposefully engineer its environment in such a way as to make things more survivable.