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NancyLebovitz comments on The metaphor/myth of general intelligence - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 August 2014 09:10:40AM 2 points [-]

Sounds like a good premise for a humorous science fiction story-- someone tries that, and discovers the world has such a wide range of behavior that every effort to take it over has unmanageable side effects. Unmanageable but harmless side effects, since this is a humorous story.