AndreInfante comments on Steelmaning AI risk critiques - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AndreInfante 29 July 2015 12:35:23AM 2 points [-]

I seriously doubt that. Plenty of humans want to kill everyone (or, at least, large groups of people). Very few succeed. These agents would be a good deal less capable.

Comment author: turchin 29 July 2015 12:43:30AM 1 point [-]

Just imagine a Stuxnet-style computer virus which will find DNA-synthesisers and print different viruses on each of them, calculating exact DNA mutations for hundreds different flu strains.

Comment author: V_V 29 July 2015 09:57:23AM 0 points [-]

You can't manufacture new flu stains with just by just hacking a DNA synthesizer, And anyway, most of non-intelligently created flu strains would be non-viable or non-lethal.

Comment author: turchin 29 July 2015 01:07:03PM 1 point [-]

I mean that the virus will be as intelligent as human bioligist, may be EM. It is enough for virus synthesis but not for personal self-imprivement