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gjm comments on Cosmic expansion vs uploads economics? - Less Wrong Discussion

-3 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 12 July 2013 07:37AM

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Comment author: gjm 12 July 2013 01:11:27PM 3 points [-]

But why would you need an exponential number of human-equivalent intelligences for this? Why not much stupider robots?

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 12 July 2013 01:13:45PM *  1 point [-]

Robots capable of doing that task would be enough, but running and building factories and dealing with problems could be tricky with current AI. Humans can do this, so uploads could as well.