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khafra comments on BOOK DRAFT: 'Ethics and Superintelligence' (part 2) - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: lukeprog 23 February 2011 05:58AM

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Comment author: khafra 23 February 2011 05:11:28PM 3 points [-]

I didn't downvote Tim, but I considered your usage standard English in referring to the first clause of the sentence, not a coded value judgement. I read it as "...Does not inspire optimism [that active prevention of AI is likely]."

Compare to, "It is difficult to predict the likelihood of John Dillinger's gang successfully robbing first national, but the addition of 8 armed guards To the bank's security plan does not inspire optimism."