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40 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 19 June 2014 05:56AM

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Comment author: torekp 22 June 2014 09:26:36PM 1 point [-]

Except ... maybe "utility function" need not apply to AI either. Why suppose that the best way to get what we want from an AI is to give it a utility function? Maybe AIs that do have utility functions are generally more dangerous than certain classes of AIs that don't.