benelliott comments on Value is Fragile - Less Wrong

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Comment author: benelliott 03 June 2011 11:46:38PM *  2 points [-]

So, you need scientists and engineers - and other complicated and interesting things. This conclusion seems so obvious as to hardly be worth discussing to me.

But you don't need very many, and you're free to enslave them while they work then kill them once they're done. They might not need to be conscious, and they certainly don't need to enjoy their work.

Probably, they will just be minor subroutines of the original AI, deleted and replaced once they learn everything necessary, which won't take long for a smart AI.