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Eugine_Nier comments on Constructing fictional eugenics (LW edition) - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 October 2012 12:41AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 01 November 2012 04:59:58PM 2 points [-]

One salient difference is I know the state is comprised of other human beings running on similar software, whereas I don't know what the source code/basic values of an AI are.

So? Remember, everything we thing of as "inhumane" was committed by actual humans.