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JoshuaZ comments on Ben Goertzel interviews Michael Anissimov regarding existential risk [link] - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 21 April 2011 12:54:09PM 1 point [-]

But both religions also have angels which are depicted often as in some ways superior to humans. (Incidentally, I suspect that Gen 1:26 was originally intended to be more literal, with a host of deities of roughly human-looking deities creating creatures that looked like themselves.)

Comment author: Sniffnoy 21 April 2011 09:36:26PM 1 point [-]

Though people may think of it as an optimum for non-supernatural beings.