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10 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 August 2008 12:26AM

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Comment author: RobinHanson 06 August 2008 02:35:44PM 0 points [-]

Eliezer, sharing causal parentage with us sounds like a plausible heuristic for ranking things in terms of similarity to us, but in many important senses an AI could share a great deal of causal parentage with us. So you still need a more detailed argument to rank AI low.