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chaosmage comments on The Fermi paradox as evidence against the likelyhood of unfriendly AI - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: chaosmage 01 August 2013 06:46PM

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Comment author: chaosmage 01 August 2013 11:21:53PM 1 point [-]

Regardless of what it optimizes, it needs raw materials at least for its own self-improvement, and it can see them lying around everywhere.

We haven't noticed anyone, friendly or unfriendly. We don't know if any friendly ones noticed us, but we know that no unfriendly ones did.