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Sewing-Machine comments on Subject X17's Surgery - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: HonoreDB 30 December 2010 07:01PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 30 December 2010 09:09:16PM 4 points [-]

intelligence is highly beneficial in any environment

This seems obviously false, to me. A critter only has to be smart enough to solve one problem.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 30 December 2010 09:27:19PM 3 points [-]

A critter only has to be smart enough to solve one problem.

Perfectly. Which necessarily involves taking over the universe.