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Comment author: MileyCyrus 30 December 2011 12:35:49AM 14 points [-]

If the SIAI engineers figure out how to construct friendly super-AI, why would they care about making it respect the values of anyone but themselves? What incentive do they have to program an AI that is friendly to humanity, and not just to themselves? What's stopping LukeProg from appointing himself king of the universe?

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 30 December 2011 02:50:45AM 14 points [-]

Not an answer, but a solution:

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God. -- Julie from Crystal Nights by Greg Egan

:-p

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