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Comment author: hairyfigment 22 July 2015 07:10:14AM 0 points [-]

The following is pure speculation. But I imagine an FAI would begin its work by vastly reducing the chance of death, and then raising everyone's intelligence and energy levels to those of JohnvonNeumann. That might allow us to bootstrap ourselves to superhuman levels with minimal guidance.