Shane_Legg comments on Magical Categories - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Shane_Legg 16 September 2008 01:28:25PM -2 points [-]

Eli,

Do you think that makes "God" a natural category that any superintelligence would ponder?

Yes. If you're a super intelligent machine on a mission there is very little that can stop you. You know that. About the only thing that could stop you would be some other kind of super intelligent entity, maybe an entity that created the universe. A "God" of some description. Getting the God question wrong could be a big mistake, and that's reason enough for you to examine the possibility.