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timtyler comments on Size of the smallest recursively self-improving AI? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: timtyler 31 March 2011 07:22:12AM *  -1 points [-]

there's no reason for us to be in a universe where they failed as opposed to one where they would eventually succeed.

People might "eventually succeed" here - but after that, what if there's 7 billion of us - and only one of them?