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philh comments on xkcd on the AI box experiment - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: FiftyTwo 21 November 2014 08:26AM

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Comment author: MarkusRamikin 22 November 2014 05:37:35PM *  10 points [-]

Now that I think of it, it's funnier to me when I realize that if this AI's goal, or one of its goals, was to stay in a box, it might still want to take over the Universe.

Comment author: philh 23 November 2014 12:16:46AM 2 points [-]

In an hour or so, it will come out again for ten minutes. During that time it will set in motion events that will quickly destroy all life on earth, ensuring that no one will ever again open the box.

Comment author: TobyBartels 23 November 2014 11:18:11PM 2 points [-]

I agree, except that the excursion shown in the comic is already the intervention setting such events into motion.