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Comment author: benelliott 14 July 2013 02:36:11AM 1 point [-]

consider that "there are no transhumanly intelligent entities in our environment" would likely be a notion that usefully-modelable-as-malevolent transhumanly intelligent entities would promote

Why?

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 16 July 2013 10:23:27PM 2 points [-]

I agree that this doesn't even make sense. If you're super intelligent/powerful, you don't need to hide. You can if you want, but ...

Comment author: AlexSchell 15 July 2013 01:23:36PM 1 point [-]

Not an explanation, but: "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled..."