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CarlShulman comments on Wanted: "The AIs will need humans" arguments - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 14 June 2012 11:01AM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 14 June 2012 07:52:31PM *  3 points [-]
  1. It doesn't answer Kaj's question.
  2. It presupposes a weird and unexplained situation in which AGIs are so efficient that they can subjugate humanity, and yet so costly that they can't convert energy (for the care and feeding of humans) into work more efficiently by building robots than through human workers.
Comment author: Grognor 15 June 2012 12:46:34AM *  1 point [-]

they can't convert energy (for the care and feeding of humans) into work more efficiently by building robots than through human workers.

The initial idea was that humans are essentially self-sustaining, and the AI would take over the natural environment with humans just like humans did so for the natural environment without humans.

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