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lessdazed comments on Students asked to defend AGI danger update in favor of AGI riskiness - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: lessdazed 19 October 2011 05:07:30AM *  3 points [-]

"My goal was to convince my students that all of us are going to be killed by an artificial intelligence," not to probe the validity of the point, so his bottom line was already written.

Sort of. Assuming he was basically convinced that "...all of us are going to be killed by an artificial intelligence," he knew he was trying to convince his students of that but he did not know if he would succeed at doing so with this method. He wasn't testing the dangers of AI, he was testing a method of persuasion.

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