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6 Post author: jkaufman 29 June 2012 01:50PM

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Comment author: fare 09 July 2012 04:00:29PM 2 points [-]

Happily, the criminal rapture of the overintelligent nerd has little chance of being implemented in our current world, unlike the criminal rapture of the ignorant and stupid masses (see socialism, islamism, etc.). That's why your proposed mass crimes won't happen - though god forbids you convince early AIs of that model of happiness to maximize.