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Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Evaluating the feasibility of SI's plan - Less Wrong Discussion

25 Post author: JoshuaFox 10 January 2013 08:17AM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 11 January 2013 06:03:32AM 1 point [-]

Sure. The point I was trying to make isn't "let's assume that the AI doesn't have access to anything we don't want it to have access to," it's "let's weaken the premises necessary to lead to the conclusion that an AI can simulate self-modifications."