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Sebastian_Hagen comments on Superintelligence 8: Cognitive superpowers - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Sebastian_Hagen 04 November 2014 09:14:00PM *  2 points [-]

Novel physics research, maybe. Just how useful that would be depends on just what our physics models are missing, and obviously we don't have very good bounds on that. The obvious application is as a boost to technology development, though in extreme cases it might be usable to manipulate physical reality without hardware designed for the purpose, or escape confinement.