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DanielLC comments on Friendly-AI is an abomination - Less Wrong Discussion

-13 Post author: kingmaker 12 April 2015 08:21PM

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Comment author: DanielLC 12 April 2015 10:22:21PM 0 points [-]

If you leave their mind unaltered, you just have a human. They're not smart enough to really be useful. Once you start altering it, insanity becomes a likely result.

Best case scenario, you get one person's CEV. Most likely scenario, you get someone too insane to be useful. Worst case, you have an insane supergenius.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 12 April 2015 11:02:54PM -1 points [-]

If humans weren't useful, humans wouldn't employ humans. A Hawking brain that needed no sleep would be a good start,