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Comment author: stcredzero 14 June 2012 07:18:28PM 2 points [-]

Come to think of it a suicidal AI could be a pretty big problem...

It's probably been thought of here and other places before, but I just thought of the "Whoops AI" -- a superhuman AGI that accidentally or purposefully destroys the human race, but then changes its mind and brings us back as a simulation.

Comment author: Logos01 14 June 2012 10:48:15PM -2 points [-]

but then changes its mind and brings us back as a simulation."

This is commonly referred to as a "counterfactual" AGI.

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