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Comment author: DanielLC 18 July 2013 09:47:27PM 1 point [-]

That's certainly a difference, but I don't see why it's particularly relevant to this conversation.

One could make a dangerously powerful AI that is not self-modifying.

The difference between a human and an AI that's relevant in this post is that a human wants to help you, or at least not get fired, where an AI wants to make paperclips.