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timtyler comments on AI Risk and Opportunity: A Strategic Analysis - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: timtyler 05 March 2012 08:16:14PM *  1 point [-]

I believe that any failed attempt at friendly AI is much more likely to 1) engage in blackmailing 2) keep humans alive 3) fail in horrible ways:

You sound a bit fixated on doom :-(

What do you make of the idea that the world has been consistently getting better for most of the last 3 billion years (give or take the occasional asteroid strike) - and that the progress is likely to continue?