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Comment author: Kawoomba 28 January 2015 08:41:30PM 13 points [-]

Strong statement from Bill Gates on machine superintelligence as an x-risk, on today's Reddit AMA:

I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence. First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don't understand why some people are not concerned.

Comment author: savedpass 29 January 2015 11:57:58AM 4 points [-]

"It seems pretty egocentric while we still have malaria and TB for rich people to fund things so they can live longer. It would be nice to live longer though I admit."

Comment author: cursed 29 January 2015 11:33:56PM 1 point [-]

I like Bill's EA tendencies.

Comment author: Dirac_Delta 31 January 2015 09:26:14AM 0 points [-]

By that line of reasoning, we should not be funding space exploration and etc. either...

(I take his comment to mean that we should not be funding life extension research because it is egocentric.)

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