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mwengler comments on Most Likely Cause of an Apocalypse on December 21 - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: DeevGrape 03 December 2012 05:10PM

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Comment author: mwengler 03 December 2012 08:47:26PM 4 points [-]

This would be like the passenger pigeon and the dodo rooting for humanity in a war against space aliens.

I feel the same way. I see FAI as an attempt to cheat evolution. But I would still root from the uAI from our planet to win over the other uAI's in the same sense I root for my daughter's volleyball team and refer to their opponents du jour as "the bad guys."

Comment author: timtyler 03 December 2012 11:39:01PM *  1 point [-]

Machine intelligence would still be evolution. Evolution - as usually defined - is changes in frequency of heritable information over time. It would be a genetic takeover, but the planet has probably seen those before.